I don't remember seeing anything about native library performance improvement, but I do know that there has been talk of a performance regression in Accumulo 1.7.0 using the default configuration. I don't remember the specific details off-hand, but it had something to do with the default value of a property changing.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Brown, Scott M (IS) [mailto:scott.bro...@ngc.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 6:49 PM > To: user@accumulo.apache.org > Subject: 1.7 native library performance boost > > So with 1.7, we noticed the statement that utilizing the native library can > add > up to 40% performance increase. With two identical systems, one with 1.6 > one with 1.7, we're not seeing any notable difference at all with either > queries or large ingests. > > Any idea what operations can take advantage, or what circumstances the > performance boost comes into play?