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Ted Malaska commented on AVRO-1243:
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BTW just wondering. Should GZip in or out? I understand why LZO should be
out, but I was just wondering what should be the fate of GZip.
I know deflate is faster then GZip but I've read it doesn't compress as well.
I also know the GZip reads very fast, very comparable to Snappy read speeds.
So for write once and read many applications GZip is a nice pick.
> Avro support for all compression codecs
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>
> Key: AVRO-1243
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1243
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: java
> Affects Versions: 1.7.3
> Reporter: Ted Malaska
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: AVRO-1243.not-ready.1.patch, AVRO-1243.not-ready.patch
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> I may be reading this wrong but at this time
> org.apache.avro.file.CodecFactory only supports null, deflate, and snappy
> compression codecs.
> I would like to change the fromString method to use
> Class.forName(codec).newInstance(); after the codec was not found in the
> REGISTERED map but before the AvroRuntimeException is thrown.
> Here are some of my supporting thoughts
> 1. This should not interduce much slowness because it will only be called
> initialize.
> 2. This will allow for support for GZip, BZip2, and LZO with out adding more
> dependances to the maven pom file.
> 3. This will allow for a future Jiri I would like to do that would allow
> AvroOutputFormat to be able to use the following configs:
> mapred.output.compress and mapred.output.compression.codec
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