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Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-1414:
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This would be great to have. We can test compatibility against other
implementations by putting more compressed files in share/test/data and having
unit tests that validate against those.
> Compression with C++ DataFile
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> Key: AVRO-1414
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1414
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: c++
> Reporter: Daniel Russel
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> There is no way to use compression with the C++ DataFileReader and C++
> DataFileWriter, from what I can tell. Adding compression of the written
> blocks using boost streams is relatively straight forward and I can provide a
> patch if people are interested.
> However, there are a couple caveats:
> - the windows builds of boost don't currently include zlib support (required
> for compression) by default. You have to do extra work to get it.
> - I don't know if doing it that way is compatible with other avro
> implementations
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