Hi,
My specific question is: is it possible to control the split of Lzo
files by customize the Lzo index files?
The background of the problem is:
I have a file which has the following format
key1 value1
key1 value2
key2 value3
key2 value4
...
Its size in plain text before compression is 11 M. After Lzo
compression, the size is 681 K. I tried this on two formats: Text
format and Sequence format with block compression. They are almost the
same.
However, when I join the same keys together and reformat the file as
key1 value1 value2
key2 value3 value4
...
The size before compression is of course more or less the same, 11M. But
after Lzo compression, the size is 4.8 M. My guess is: maybe the Lzo
compression algorithm could compress a lot of similar values in the
first format, whereas in the second format the concatenation of
multiple values are less likely to be identical, therefore the
compression rate decreases.
So, again my question is, if I would like to keep the file in the first
format, I would prohibit mapper to split the file within the same key.
For example, all "key1" should go to the same mapper. Is it doable on a
Lzo file? Because the split behavior of Lzo files relies on the index
files, is there anyway to control the split by customizing the Lzo index
files?
BTW, when using the second format, I found that bzip2 has better
compression rate than Lzo (2.1 M). Did I made any mistake when using
Lzo compression?
Thanks!
Best Regards,
Shi
