Vincent, I don't expect that either, can you give us more info about your test environment?
Thx, J-D On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Vincent Barat <vincent.ba...@ubikod.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I did some testing to figure out which compression algo I should use for my > HBase tables. I thought that LZO was the good candidate, but it appears that > it is the worst one. > > I uses one table with 2 families and 10 columns. Each row has a total of 200 > to 400 bytes. > > Here is my results: > > GZIP: 2600 to 3200 inserts/s 12000 to 15000 reads/s > NO COMPRESSION: 2000 to 2600 inserts/s 4900 to 5020 reads/s > LZO 1600 to 2100 inserts/s 4020 to 4600 reads/s > > Do you have an explanation to this ? I though that the LZO compression was > always faster at compression and decompression than GZIP ? > > >
