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@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
public class CompactingMemStore extends AbstractMemStore {
   public static final String COMPACTING_MEMSTORE_TYPE_KEY =
       "hbase.hregion.compacting.memstore.type";
   public static final String COMPACTING_MEMSTORE_TYPE_DEFAULT =
-      String.valueOf(HColumnDescriptor.MemoryCompaction.BASIC);
+      String.valueOf(HColumnDescriptor.MemoryCompaction.NONE);
   // Default fraction of in-memory-flush size w.r.t. flush-to-disk size
   public static final String IN_MEMORY_FLUSH_THRESHOLD_FACTOR_KEY =
       "hbase.memstore.inmemoryflush.threshold.factor";
