SSTables

First of all, let's cd over to where our table data is stored. By default, keyspace and table data is stored in the data/ directory, off of the $CASSANDRA_HOME directory. Listing out the files reveals the following:

cd data/data/packt/hi_scores-d74bfc40634311e8a387e3d147c7be0fls -altotal 72drwxr-xr-x  11 aploetz aploetz  374 May 29 08:28 .drwxr-xr-x   6 aploetz aploetz  204 May 29 08:26 ..-rw-r--r--   1 aploetz aploetz   43 May 29 08:28 mc-1-big-CompressionInfo.db-rw-r--r--   1 aploetz aploetz  252 May 29 08:28 mc-1-big-Data.db-rw-r--r--   1 aploetz aploetz   10 May 29 08:28 mc-1-big-Digest.crc32-rw-r--r--   1 aploetz aploetz   16 May 29 08:28 mc-1-big-Filter.db-rw-r--r--   1 aploetz aploetz   27 May 29 08:28 mc-1-big-Index.db-rw-r--r-- 1 aploetz aploetz ...

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