Yes, it seems like Cassandra is suffering from compacting too, although maybe not so ugly as LevelDB. The only solution I've found is Castle backend from Acunu

Yes, it seems like Cassandra is suffering from compacting too, although maybe not so ugly as LevelDB. The only solution I've found is Castle backend from Acunu [1], but there were no updates from 2011 [2] and it looks really heavy (with kernel module and all that) [1] http://www.slideshare.net/acunu/cassandra-on-castle http://www.slideshare.net/acunu/cassandra-on-castle [2] https://bitbucket.org/acunu/fs.hg https://bitbucket.org/acunu/fs.hg