> The investigation around the exception revealed that at-least one of the SSTable (Sorted String Table) rows was unordered, which caused the compaction operation to fail. SSTables are immutable files that are always sorted by the primary key
This was just... a bug in Cassandra? Is there anyone that can shed light on this? There seem to be plenty of people using Cassandra at scale -- is constantly repairing it normal practice?
https://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2023/01/rebuilding-a-cassan...
> The investigation around the exception revealed that at-least one of the SSTable (Sorted String Table) rows was unordered, which caused the compaction operation to fail. SSTables are immutable files that are always sorted by the primary key
This was just... a bug in Cassandra? Is there anyone that can shed light on this? There seem to be plenty of people using Cassandra at scale -- is constantly repairing it normal practice?