Hi users, I just want to share a useful tip when storing very fat values into HBase, we were able to get some of our MR jobs an order of magnitude faster by simply using Java's Deflater and then passing the byte[] to Put (and the equivalent when retrieving the values with Inflator). We also use LZO compression on top of that.
I created this jira in order to ingrate that into HBase's client layer as a configuration option for families: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3732 Hope that can be useful to someone, J-D
