Hello Paul, On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 06:45:46PM +0200, Paul Cavallaro wrote: > On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Arvid Warnecke <[email protected]> wrote: > > I already found some old entries from mailinglists and articles at > > Cloudera how to use the Snappy library from Hadoop in HBase, but it does > > not seem to work for me. > > > > I installed Hadoop and HBase from the tarballs, because there are no > > packages available for Arch Linux. Everything worked fine, but I am not > > able to use any compression for my tables. > > > > When I use > > > > hbase> create 'table', {NAME=>'fam', COMPRESSION=>'snappy'} > > > I would first ask if you've installed the native snappy libraries on the > machine? > > http://hbase.apache.org/book/snappy.compression.html > > That seems to be the likely culprit here. > No, I did not. I installed Hadoop via Cloudera tarball. There are libs for different compressions available at $HADOOP_HOME/lib/native. Is there a difference?
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