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Josh Elser commented on HBASE-15881: ------------------------------------ bq. Thanks Nick Dimiduk, Josh Elser for keeping us honest here Thanks for understanding :) > 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 > Assignee: Lars Hofhansl > Fix For: 2.0.0, 1.4.0, 0.98.20, 1.3.1 > > 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)