Github user marmbrus commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/285#issuecomment-41747845 Note that much of this code was adapted from Shark, including: https://github.com/amplab/shark/blob/master/src/test/scala/shark/memstore2/column/CompressionAlgorithmSuite.scala
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