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Riak has "windowed merges", ie you can schedule compaction at your off-peak times. Or not at all, I guess, if you never delete or modify existing data.
by metabrew 16y ago
Riak has "windowed merges", ie you can schedule compaction at your off-peak times. Or not at all, I guess, if you never delete or modify existing data.
- siculars 16y agothe window merge is a new thing in riak 0.14, i believe. and you are correct the merge is only a consideration based on your use case. if you are using riak as a pure dump of immutable data you will not need to merge. if, however, your use case consists of a number of edits you should consider a more aggressive merge strategy. As all updates/deletes are appended to bitcask and are actually writes, your dead bytes will start growing rapidly.