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Andrew Purtell resolved HBASE-68.
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Resolution: Not a Problem
Use block encoding
> [hbase] HStoreFiles needlessly store the column family name in every entry
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> Key: HBASE-68
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-68
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: regionserver
> Reporter: Bryan Duxbury
> Priority: Minor
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> Today, HStoreFiles keep the entire serialized HStoreKey objects around for
> every cell in the HStore. Since HStores are 1-1 with column families, this is
> really unnecessary - you can always surmise the column family by looking at
> the HStore it belongs to. (This information would ostensibly come from the
> file name or a header section.) This means that we could remove the column
> family part of the HStoreKeys we put into the HStoreFile, reducing the size
> of data stored. This would be a space-saving benefit, removing redundant
> data, and could be a speed benefit, as you have to scan over less data in
> memory and transfer less data over the network.
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