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Jonathan Gray commented on HBASE-3691: -------------------------------------- It's slightly faster for both compression and decompression when compared to LZO (169/434 vs. 250/500). I'm unsure of the difference in compression ratios but we can ship with it, yay > Add compressor support for 'snappy', google's compressor > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-3691 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3691 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Task > Reporter: stack > Priority: Critical > Fix For: 0.92.0 > > > http://code.google.com/p/snappy/ is apache licensed. > bq. Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for > maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; > instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For > instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of > magnitude faster for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are > anywhere from 20% to 100% bigger. On a single core of a Core i7 processor in > 64-bit mode, Snappy compresses at about 250 MB/sec or more and decompresses > at about 500 MB/sec or more. > bq. Snappy is widely used inside Google, in everything from BigTable and > MapReduce to our internal RPC systems. (Snappy has previously been referred > to as "Zippy" in some presentations and the likes.) > Lets get it in. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira