[CASSANDRA-19640] Enhance documentation on storage engine with leading summary

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Documentation
• Change Category: Code Clarity
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Platform: All

Test and Documentation Plan

n/a for documentation

• Assignee: Brad Schoening
• Reporter: Brad Schoening

Authors

Brad Schoening

• Created: 17/May/24 12:43
• Updated: 03/Jun/24 23:13

Description

The storage engine documentation would benefit from an abstract or summary which mentions key points that it uses a Log-structured merge (LSM) tree design, is write-oriented, and relies upon bloom filters (not B-trees) to optimize the read path.

Issue Links

• links to: PR-3333