Integrate Snappy compression
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Key: HADOOP-7206
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7206
Project: Hadoop Common
Issue Type: New Feature
Reporter: Eli Collins
Google release Zippy as an open source (APLv2) project called Snappy
(http://code.google.com/p/snappy). This tracks integrating it into Hadoop.
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Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum
compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it
aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, compared to
the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster for most
inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to 100%
bigger. On a single core of a Core i7 processor in 64-bit mode, Snappy
compresses at about 250 MB/sec or more and decompresses at about 500 MB/sec or
more.
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