Are you using hbase 0.20? If so, there is no 'compress'. Its NONE, LZO, or GZIP (You'll have to build lzo yourself. See hbase wiki for how).
See the shell help. It has examples of how to change parameters on column families. St.Ack 2009/12/14 Xin Jing <[email protected]> > Hi all, > > I want to change the column family property for a existing hbase table. > Setting one comlumn family COMPRESSION from 'none' to comress, and chagne > one column family IN_MEMORY from 'false' to 'true'. > > I want to use hbase shell to achieve that, but I cannot find the detailed > description on 'alter' command. Could anyone point me to a reference on > that? > > Thanks > - Xin >
