Re: google snappy

2011-03-24 Thread Jeff Whiting
This is a great idea. It is also under the APACHE license so we hopefully we can have snappy support directly in hbase and can forget about lzo and all its problems. ~Jeff On 3/23/2011 11:03 AM, Segel, Mike wrote: Lol... It's already in the works... Sent from my Palm Pre , Please excuse

Re: google snappy

2011-03-24 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
...@qualtrics.com To: dev@hbase.apache.org Sent: Thu, March 24, 2011 2:27:29 PM Subject: Re: google snappy This is a great idea. It is also under the APACHE license so we hopefully we can have snappy support directly in hbase and can forget about lzo and all its problems. ~Jeff On 3/23/2011

Re: google snappy

2011-03-23 Thread Jean-Daniel Cryans
(Please don't cross-post like that, it only adds confusion. I put everything in bcc and posted to general instead) Their README says the following: Snappy usually is faster than algorithms in the same class (e.g. LZO, LZF, FastLZ, QuickLZ, etc.) while achieving comparable compression ratios.

Re: google snappy

2011-03-23 Thread Segel, Mike
Lol... It's already in the works... Sent from my Palm Pre , Please excuse any spelling errors. On Mar 23, 2011 11:53 AM, Weishung Chung weish...@gmail.com wrote: Hey my fellow hadoop/hbase developers, I just came across this google compression/decompression