On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Matt Corgan <[email protected]> wrote: > Different implementations will have different performance > characteristics where some may be better for disk and others for RPC, but > the overall intent is the same. >
A while back, custom compression of KVs before putting data on the wire was tried and abandoned because of the added latency. Our fb brethren have actually committed a patch to do rpc compression to 89-fb because of throughput improvements and how it helps with network congestion. Check out this issue for discussion, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5355 St.Ack
