How necessary is the Cassandra compaction as it requires a lot of resources and time?
During the compaction process, which usually takes around 10 to 12 hours for a 150GB database, the system gets slow.
What could happen in the near future if the Cassandra compaction is disabled?
Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 10th July 2023
Also note that compaction can be rescheduled as a windows job, so perhaps your customer can schedule the compaction to occur after peak hours, rather than at 1am as is standard.
Rodrigo Salvador [SLC] Answered question 15th September 2020