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Jean-Marc Spaggiari commented on HBASE-15881: --------------------------------------------- Thanks for doing that Lars. Looking forward to get that in 1.2 branch... We definitively need a better compression compared to GZip for very cold tables... > Allow BZIP2 compression > ----------------------- > > Key: HBASE-15881 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15881 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: HFile > Reporter: Lars Hofhansl > Attachments: 15881-0.98.txt > > > BZIP2 is a very efficient compressor in terms of compression rate. > Compression speed is very slow, de-compression is equivalent or faster than > GZIP. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)