If you aren't often looking at the data in the value on the tablet server (like in an iterator), you can also pre-compress your values on ingest.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Marc Parisi <[email protected]> wrote: > You could compress the data in the value, and decompress the data upon > receipt by the scanner. > > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:03 PM, ameet kini <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> 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 >> > >
