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The following page has been changed by AlexNewman: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/UsingLzoCompression ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This doc only applies to 0.20. If you are under 0.19.x, please consider upgrading. - == Why comprssion? == + == Why compression? == By enabling compression, the store file (HFile) will use a compression algorithm on blocks as they are written (during flushes and compactions) and thus must be decompressed when reading.
