title: Cassandra 3.0 updated SSTable format
body: <p>According to <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8099" rel="noreferrer">this</a> issue, Cassandra's storage format was updated in 3.0.</p>
  
  <p>If previously I could use cassandra-cli to see how the SSTable is built, to get something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[default@test] list phonelists;
  -------------------
  RowKey: scott
  =&gt; (column=, value=, timestamp=1374684062860000)
  =&gt; (column=phonenumbers:bill, value='555-7382', timestamp=1374684062860000)
  =&gt; (column=phonenumbers:jane, value='555-8743', timestamp=1374684062860000)
  =&gt; (column=phonenumbers:patricia, value='555-4326', timestamp=1374684062860000)
  -------------------
  RowKey: john
  =&gt; (column=, value=, timestamp=1374683971220000)
  =&gt; (column=phonenumbers:doug, value='555-1579', timestamp=1374683971220000)
  =&gt; (column=phonenumbers:patricia, value='555-4326', timestamp=137468397122
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What would the internal formal look like in the latest version of Cassandra? Could you provide an example? </p>
  
  <p>What utility can I use to see the internal representation of the table in Cassandra in a way listed above, but with a new SSTable format?</p>
  
  <p>All that I have found on the internet is that the partition header how stores column names, row stores clustering values and that there are no duplicated values. </p>
  
  <p>How can I look into it?</p>