That works since you don’t need a region to be splittable… On Jun 14, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Kevin O'dell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jeremy, > > I always recommend turning on snappy compression, I have ~20% > performance increases. > On Jun 14, 2014 10:25 AM, "Ted Yu" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >>>>> >>>> >>> >>
