Also see here... http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#keyvalue
Compression will make it better on disk, but it will inflate over the wire. On 2/14/12 12:40 PM, "Jean-Daniel Cryans" <[email protected]> wrote: >> We are assuming the longer cf/qual would be written to HDFS billions of >> times and would be wasteful. Is that a correct assumption? > >Yes, also that's covered a bit in: >http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#keysize > >> >> Does the answer change if you use Snappy compression? > >Any compression will make it better, also have a look at this jira >which was recently committed to trunk (adding prefix compression): >https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4218 > >J-D >
