What will happen, if we on-the-fly switch the Table's compaction strategy from STCS to TWCS?
Tables on 10 nodes are quite large at this time.
I am not worried over what will happen to TWCS, we know that.
But, will cassandra start to repair/compress the OLD STCS data?
What will happen when we switch from STCS to TWCS on-the-fly?
@kajarvine_115939 As you may already know, TimeWindowCompactionStrategy (TWCS) uses SizeTieredCompactionStrategy (STCS) to compact SSTables which belong to the same time window.
All the old (or existing) SSTables is considered to belong to "window zero". If there are SSTables which fit into the current time window, they will be compacted as part of that window. Anything older than the current window will no longer get compacted.
For example, consider the scenario where the configured time window is 7 days. Any existing STCS SSTables which fit into the "last 7 days" will be included as candidates for compaction in the current time window. SSTables older than 7 days won't be compacted anymore. Cheers!
Some video related to the topic on the academy. You are covered only data on the time-window will be compacted
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