You may have read Doug Meil's writeup where he tried out different ColumnFamily compressions :
https://blogs.apache.org/hbase/ Cheers On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:33 AM, jeremy p <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you -- I'll go ahead and try compression. > > --Jeremy > > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Dima Spivak <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I'd highly recommend it. In general, compressing your column families > will > > improve performance by reducing the resources required to get data from > > disk (even when taking into account the CPU overhead of compressing and > > decompressing). > > > > -Dima > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:35 AM, jeremy p < > [email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > Hey all, > > > > > > Right now, I'm not using compression on any of my tables, because our > > data > > > doesn't take up a huge amount of space. However, I would turn on > > > compression if there was a chance it would improve HBase's performance. > > By > > > performance, I'm talking about the speed with which HBase responds to > > > requests and retrieves data. > > > > > > Should I turn compression on? > > > > > > --Jeremy > > > > > >
