Compression only applies to data on disk. Over the wire (I.E., RS to client) is uncompressed.
On 7/11/13 9:24 AM, "Jean-Marc Spaggiari" <jean-m...@spaggiari.org> wrote: >Hi Alok, > >What do you mean by "query"? > >Gets are done based on the key. And snappy and LZO are used to compress >the >value. So only when a row feet your needs HBase will decrompress the value >and send it back to you... > >Does it reply to your question? > >JM > >2013/7/11 Alok Singh Mahor <alokma...@gmail.com> > >> Hello everyone, >> could anyone tell me small query? >> >> Does Hbase decompress data before executing query or it execute queries >>on >> compressed data? and how snappy and lzo actually behave ? >> >> thanks >>