Hi I am not very sure about the storage savings you are talking about, But there is definitely savings in RAM as there is block level index and bloom filter instead of file level. More here
http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2012/06/hbase-io-hfile-input-output/ http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#d540e10937 Was compression enabled in 0.90? is it enabled now in 0.92? ./zahoor On 14-Aug-2012, at 11:45 PM, anil gupta <anilgupt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I recently updated my cluster from HBase 0.90 to HBase 0.92. One replica of > one table used to take 90 GB in 0.90 but the same table takes 45 GB in > 0.92(HFilev2). The table has 1 column family and each row stores data of > 300-400 bytes(this is the size of values) in 20-30 column. > I am interested in knowing of any disk usage optimization done in HFilev2? > Please share if you know of any relevant document to understand the > reduction in disk space usage? > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > Anil Gupta
