native fast compression codec
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Key: HBASE-2404
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2404
Project: Hadoop HBase
Issue Type: New Feature
Reporter: Andrew Purtell
We often recommend enabling LZO on tables, most users see big wins. LZO is
roughly comparable to BigTable LZW, also the way HFile uses LZO has functional
equivalence to prefix compression on keys. However, LZO is GPL licensed, so a
series of install steps are required:
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/UsingLzoCompression . It's easy to miss a step or
get it wrong. If so, all writes on a table (re)configured to use LZO will fail.
Hadoop, well, Java, has native support for gzip compression but it is too slow
generally; is a good option however for archival tables.
This issue is about considering bundling or creating a comparable alternate to
LZO which is ASF 2.0 license compatible.
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