What is compression in Cassandra?

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1. #storage
2. #nodes
3. #dominated
4. #workloads
5. #maximizes
6. #compression
7. #compressed
8. #written
9. #reducing
10. #cassandra
11. #volume
12. #particularly
13. #capacity
14. #sstables