My understanding of compression in Accumulo 1.4.1 is that it is on by default and that data is decompressed by the tablet server, so data on the wire between server/client is decompressed. Is there a way to shift the decompression from happening on the server to the client? I have a use case where each Value in my table is relatively large (~ 8MB) and I can benefit from compression over the wire. I don't have any server side iterators, so the values don't need to be decompressed by the tablet server. Also, each scan returns a few rows, so client-side decompression can be fast.
The only way I can think of now is to disable compression on that table, and handle compression/decompression in the application. But if there is a way to do this in Accumulo, I'd prefer that. Thanks, Ameet
