Snappy is all over the Hadoop ecosystem: http://search-hadoop.com/?q=snappy&sort=newestOnTop . Snappy indeed.
Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Jeff Whiting <je...@qualtrics.com> > To: dev@hbase.apache.org > Sent: Thu, March 24, 2011 2:27:29 PM > Subject: Re: google snappy > > This is a great idea. It is also under the APACHE license so we hopefully > we >can have snappy > > support directly in hbase and can forget about lzo and all its problems. > > ~Jeff > > On 3/23/2011 11:03 AM, Segel, Mike wrote: > > Lol... > > It's already in the works... > > > > > > > > Sent from my Palm Pre , Please excuse any spelling errors. > > > > ________________________________ > > On Mar 23, 2011 11:53 AM, Weishung Chung<weish...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hey my fellow hadoop/hbase developers, > > > > I just came across this google compression/decompression package yesterday, > > could we make a good use of this compression scheme in hadoop? It's written > > in C++ though. > > > > http://code.google.com/p/snappy/ > > > > <http://code.google.com/p/snappy/>I haven't looked close into this snappy > > package yet but i would love to know about the differences compared to LZO. > > > > Thank you, > > Wei Shung > > > > > > The information contained in this communication may be CONFIDENTIAL and is >intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not >the >intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, >distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its contents, is >strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, >please >notify the sender and delete/destroy the original message and any copy of it >from your computer or paper files. > > > > -- > Jeff Whiting > Qualtrics Senior Software Engineer > je...@qualtrics.com > >