SSTable is an abbreviation for Sorted String Table. It is the fundamental storage building block in few of the modern Log Structured Merge Tree(LSM) based distributed database systems and key-value stores. It is used in Cassandra, BigTable and other systems. SSTable stands for Sorted Strings Table which stores a set of immutable row fragments or partitions in sorted order based on row/partition ke
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