I am sorry if this has been asked before: To bulk load into HBase I am
using a mapper only job to generate the HFiles and then run
loadtable.rb. Everything seems fine now but I want to turn on GZIP
compression on the table. I did
HFileOutputFormat.setCompressOutput(job, true); in the MR job and set
Compression to "GZ" on the column family I want. But the compression
doesn't seem to work, the final table size is same as the
non-compressed verison. What am I missing? I'd really appreciate any
help. Thanks!
