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Size-tiered vs leveled compaction

A write-heavy workload with large SSTables suffers from high write amplification. Which compaction strategy is generally cheaper for writes but worse for read/space amplification?
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  1. 1Size-tiered compaction
  2. 2Leveled compaction
  3. 3Tiered-only with no compaction
  4. 4Full compaction on every write

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