Cassandra file structure - how are the files used?

Question

When experimenting with Cassandra I\'ve observed that Cassandra writes to the following files:

/.../cassandra/commitlog/CommitLog-.log
/.../cassandra/d         


        

Answer 1

Cassandra File Format in detail

Each ColumnFamily(Eg. object) in separated sstable files

ColumnFamilyName-version-#-Data.db
ColumnFamilyName-version-#-Index.db
ColumnFamilyName-version-#-Filter.db