What is an SSTable?

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knorv picture knorv · Apr 4, 2010 · Viewed 64k times · Source

In BigTable/GFS and Cassandra terminology, what is the definition of a SSTable?

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Schildmeijer picture Schildmeijer · Apr 5, 2010

Sorted Strings Table (borrowed from google) is a file of key/value string pairs, sorted by keys

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