LZ4 is slightly faster than snappy (from my own tests) but I really doubt that anyone will see performance difference in HBase (or in Hadoop)
Best regards, Vladimir Rodionov Principal Platform Engineer Carrier IQ, www.carrieriq.com e-mail: [email protected] ________________________________________ From: Laxman [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 7:17 AM To: 'Stack'; [email protected] Subject: RE: LZ4 compression support Hi Stack, I haven't tried LZ4 in Hadoop. Currently, I'm directly testing LZ4 with HBase. Will publish my findings soon. -- Regards, Laxman > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Stack > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 11:33 PM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: LZ4 compression support > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Laxman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Some more compression algorithms are supported in Hadoop. > > > > IMO, if not all, we can add support for few faster algorithms (Like > LZ4) in > > HBase also to take the advantage of its speed. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7657 > > > > What would you suggest Laxman? Have you tried hbase against hadoop > 0.23.1 using LZ4? Or are you thinking of pulling it into hbase? > St.Ack Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this message, including any attachments hereto, may be confidential and is intended to be read only by the individual or entity to whom this message is addressed. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent or designee of the intended recipient, please note that any review, use, disclosure or distribution of this message or its attachments, in any form, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and/or [email protected] and delete or destroy any copy of this message and its attachments.
