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Alex Newman commented on HBASE-2404:
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Dup of HBASE-3691
> native fast compression codec
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> Key: HBASE-2404
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2404
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Andrew Purtell
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> We often recommend enabling LZO on tables, most users see big wins. LZO is
> roughly comparable to BigTable LZW, and we get something like 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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