After you have installed snappy you have to configure the codec like the URL I posted before or you can reference them in your MR jobs. Be sure you have the jars in your classpath for.
For storing snappy compressed files in HDFS you should use Pig or Flume. -- Alexander Lorenz http://mapredit.blogspot.com On Feb 27, 2012, at 7:28 AM, hadoop hive wrote: > thanks Alex, > > i m using Apache hadoop, steps i followed > > 1:- untar snappy > 2:- entry in mapred site > > this can be used like deflate only(like only on overwriting file) > > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:50 AM, alo alt <wget.n...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >> https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/CDHDOC/Snappy+Installation#SnappyInstallation-UsingSnappyforMapReduceCompression >> >> best, >> Alex >> >> -- >> Alexander Lorenz >> http://mapredit.blogspot.com >> >> On Feb 27, 2012, at 7:16 AM, hadoop hive wrote: >> >>> Hey folks, >>> >>> i m using hadoop 0.20.2 + r911707 , please tell me the installation and >> how >>> to use snappy for compression and decompression >>> >>> Regards >>> Vikas Srivastava >> >>
