October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
By default, Apache Cassandra implements LZ4 compression with a chunk_length_in_kb size of 64. It's important to note that in read-heavy or mixed workloads, using a smaller chunk size can help to improve (reduce) our overall disk I/O usage. This is especially true if your data model is performing small, frequent reads. Jon Haddad of The Last Pickle put it best when he wrote the following: