It is splittable because of how the compression uses blocks, Pig does this out of the box.

Josh

On Dec 2, 2008, at 1:14 AM, Zheng Shao wrote:

It shouldn't be a problem for Hive to support it (by defining your own input/output file format that does the decompression on the flyer), but we won't be able to parallelize the execution as we do with uncompressed text files, and sequence files, since bz2 compression is not splittable.

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