# Tiered Compaction Strategy

![Chapter Overview](./lsm-tutorial/week2-01-overview.svg)

In this chapter, you will:

* Implement a tiered compaction strategy and simulate it on the compaction simulator.
* Incorporate tiered compaction strategy into the system.

The tiered compaction we talk about in this chapter is the same as RocksDB's universal compaction. We will use these two terminologies interchangeably.

## Test Your Understanding

* What are the pros/cons of universal compaction compared with simple leveled/tiered compaction?
* How much storage space is it required (compared with user data size) to run universal compaction without using up the storage device space?
* The log-on-log problem.

We do not provide reference answers to the questions, and feel free to discuss about them in the Discord community.

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