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package org.apache.hadoop.hbase;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.classification.InterfaceAudience;
/**
* Enum describing all possible memory compaction policies
*/
@InterfaceAudience.Public
public enum MemoryCompactionPolicy {
/**
* No memory compaction, when size threshold is exceeded data is flushed to disk
*/
NONE,
/**
* Basic policy applies optimizations which modify the index to a more compacted representation.
* This is beneficial in all access patterns. The smaller the cells are the greater the
* benefit of this policy.
* This is the default policy.
*/
BASIC,
/**
* In addition to compacting the index representation as the basic policy, eager policy
* eliminates duplication while the data is still in memory (much like the
* on-disk compaction does after the data is flushed to disk). This policy is most useful for
* applications with high data churn or small working sets.
*/
EAGER
}