David Smiley created ZOOKEEPER-4187:
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Summary: Support compressed data natively
Key: ZOOKEEPER-4187
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-4187
Project: ZooKeeper
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: David Smiley
I think it's common to put files in ZooKeeper that compress well, sometimes
extremely well. The client (perhaps facilitated by Curator) can compress this,
but it'd be nicer I think if ZK supported this natively.
Wether a file is compressed or not could be the choice of the client, and the
ZK client could just do it for the user (ease of use), provided you have the
appropriate dependency. The server need not do any compression; leave it to
the client. A ZK client could tell the server what compression algorithms it
supports, so that if a client (perhaps an old one) doesn't have the compression
libs needed for a given file it wants, the server could decompress on its
behalf. That should handle backwards-compatibility.
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