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stack commented on HBASE-4218:
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/me hearts this issue
> Delta Encoding of KeyValues (aka prefix compression)
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>
> Key: HBASE-4218
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4218
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: io
> Reporter: Jacek Migdal
> Labels: compression
>
> A compression for keys. Keys are sorted in HFile and they are usually very
> similar. Because of that, it is possible to design better compression than
> general purpose algorithms,
> It is an additional step designed to be used in memory. It aims to save
> memory in cache as well as speeding seeks within HFileBlocks. It should
> improve performance a lot, if key lengths are larger than value lengths. For
> example, it makes a lot of sense to use it when value is a counter.
> Initial tests on real data (key length = ~ 90 bytes , value length = 8 bytes)
> shows that I could achieve decent level of compression:
> key compression ratio: 92%
> total compression ratio: 85%
> LZO on the same data: 85%
> LZO after delta encoding: 91%
> While having much better performance (20-80% faster decompression ratio than
> LZO). Moreover, it should allow far more efficient seeking which should
> improve performance a bit.
> It seems that a simple compression algorithms are good enough. Most of the
> savings are due to prefix compression, int128 encoding, timestamp diffs and
> bitfields to avoid duplication. That way, comparisons of compressed data can
> be much faster than a byte comparator (thanks to prefix compression and
> bitfields).
> In order to implement it in HBase two important changes in design will be
> needed:
> -solidify interface to HFileBlock / HFileReader Scanner to provide seeking
> and iterating; access to uncompressed buffer in HFileBlock will have bad
> performance
> -extend comparators to support comparison assuming that N first bytes are
> equal (or some fields are equal)
> Link to a discussion about something similar:
> http://search-hadoop.com/m/5aqGXJEnaD1/hbase+windows&subj=Re+prefix+compression
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