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Benoit Sigoure commented on HADOOP-7206:
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Allen, I agree that situation with back-porting everything in Hadoop has gotten
to a ridiculous point. So while I understand and share your desire to stop
back-porting things or splitting things out, you also have to understand the
desire of users like us whose business greatly depends on Hadoop/HBase and
where we need to move forward quickly. If we were to wait until Apache
releases a version of Hadoop we can use in production with HBase (proper
append, no data loss, etc), we'd still be waiting. So although I don't like
the current situation with Hadoop either, I'm glad someone did the grungy work
of back-porting things or splitting some things out so we could move forward.
What Todd is proposing is simply a way to make Snappy available quickly to
users like us, and we'd be very happy about that. I think it's in everyone's
interest to make this available as soon as possible and not wait for a future
Hadoop release.
Note: we're not Cloudera customers, but we use CDH because It Just Works.
> Integrate Snappy compression
> ----------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-7206
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7206
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Eli Collins
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> Google release Zippy as an open source (APLv2) project called Snappy
> (http://code.google.com/p/snappy). This tracks integrating it into Hadoop.
> {quote}
> 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.
> {quote}
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