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Jean-Marc Spaggiari commented on HBASE-15881:
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Thanks for doing that Lars. Looking forward to get that in 1.2 branch... We
definitively need a better compression compared to GZip for very cold tables...
> Allow BZIP2 compression
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> Key: HBASE-15881
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15881
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: HFile
> Reporter: Lars Hofhansl
> Attachments: 15881-0.98.txt
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> BZIP2 is a very efficient compressor in terms of compression rate.
> Compression speed is very slow, de-compression is equivalent or faster than
> GZIP.
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