I'm guessing something else is responsible for the compaction
difference you're seeing -- Bytes, UTF8, and Ascii types all use the
same lexical byte comparison code. The only place you should expect
to lose a small amount of performance by using the latter two is on
insert when it sanity-checks th
I recently changed the default_validation_class on a bunch of CFs from
BytesType to UTF8Type and I observed two things: first I saw a number of
compactions during the migration that showed ~200% to ~400% of original
in the log entry. Second, it seems that compaction speed has now halved.
I'm using
