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Jean-Daniel Cryans commented on HBASE-3732:
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Benoit, that's already the case (and it's something we want to get rid of). See 
the regioninfo qualifer in .META.

I agree it is a bit invasive and it's not just about adding a config option for 
families, so I'm still wondering if the pain of adding this in is worth it. You 
could also add a layer on top of HTable like CompressedHTable but that just 
seem ugly.

> New configuration option for client-side compression
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-3732
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3732
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Jean-Daniel Cryans
>             Fix For: 0.92.0
>
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> We have a case here where we have to store very fat cells (arrays of 
> integers) which can amount into the hundreds of KBs that we need to read 
> often, concurrently, and possibly keep in cache. Compressing the values on 
> the client using java.util.zip's Deflater before sending them to HBase proved 
> to be in our case almost an order of magnitude faster.
> There reasons are evident: less data sent to hbase, memstore contains 
> compressed data, block cache contains compressed data too, etc.
> I was thinking that it might be something useful to add to a family schema, 
> so that Put/Result do the conversion for you. The actual compression algo 
> should also be configurable.

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