Microsoft Word - HBase_Tier_Base_Compaction.docxHBase Tier Based Compaction by Akashnil Dutta 1. Overview The goal of the compaction selection algorithm is to schedule compactions efficiently. The current algorithm takes a set of candidate files as input, and produces a subset as output. If there is no eligible compactions, the output set can be empty. The candidate set is made of all the files in one region which are not already scheduled for
