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Todd Lipcon commented on HBASE-4608: ------------------------------------ Nope, we don't currently compress the log-split output. Good idea, Nicolas. We can use both compression mechanisms there - LZO/Snappy on top of the dictionary compression should be very good. The dictionary compression alone will be a big improvement there, though, since we'll save len(region key) bytes per edit guaranteed. > HLog Compression > ---------------- > > Key: HBASE-4608 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4608 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Li Pi > Assignee: Li Pi > Attachments: 4608v1.txt, 4608v5.txt, 4608v6.txt, 4608v7.txt, > 4608v8fixed.txt > > > The current bottleneck to HBase write speed is replicating the WAL appends > across different datanodes. We can speed up this process by compressing the > HLog. Current plan involves using a dictionary to compress table name, region > id, cf name, and possibly other bits of repeated data. Also, HLog format may > be changed in other ways to produce a smaller HLog. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira