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Jesse Yates commented on HBASE-5313:
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However, those compression numbers are pretty nice. I worry a little bit about 
having now an hfileV3, so soon on the heels of the last, leading to a 
proliferation of versions. My other concern is that the columnar storage 
doesn't make sense for all cases - Dremel is for a specific use case.

That being said, I would love to see the ability to do Dremel in HBase. How 
about along with a new version/columnar data support comes the ability to 
select storage files on a per-table basis? That would enable some tables to be 
optimized for certain use cases, other tables for others, rather than having to 
use completely different clusters (continuing the multi-tenancy story).
                
> Restructure hfiles layout for better compression
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-5313
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5313
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: io
>            Reporter: dhruba borthakur
>            Assignee: dhruba borthakur
>
> A HFile block contain a stream of key-values. Can we can organize these kvs 
> on the disk in a better way so that we get much greater compression ratios?
> One option (thanks Prakash) is to store all the keys in the beginning of the 
> block (let's call this the key-section) and then store all their 
> corresponding values towards the end of the block. This will allow us to 
> not-even decompress the values when we are scanning and skipping over rows in 
> the block.
> Any other ideas? 

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