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Balancing Compaction Principles and Practices

Raphael Carvalho32 minutes

Compaction is a crucial component for preventing storage consumption from exploding. In this session, we’ll talk about why compaction is required and its principles of operation, the main compaction strategies available for use, when they should be used, and how they can be configured. Finally, we’ll present new compaction features recently introduced in ScyllaDB Enterprise and ScyllaDB Cloud.

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Raphael Carvalho, Senior Software Engineer, ScyllaDB

Raphael is an engineer working on the ScyllaDB storage layer for the past 7 years. Previously, he worked on bringing new file system support for the Syslinux project, which is a suite of bootloaders for starting up Linux. He’s passionate about OS development too, which led him to work on OSv, an operating system for virtualized environments, and make contributions to the Linux kernel as well.

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