Editorial question56.6K views2,254 votes0 answers4,082 following
AI-generatedCassandra SSTable format incompatibility during binary downgrade
Apache Cassandra supports rolling upgrades where nodes are updated to a newer binary version. While newer versions can typically read older SSTable formats, forward compatibility is limited. Once a node performs compaction or uses the sstableupgrade tool, the data is rewritten into the newer version's format. In a scenario where a binary downgrade is require