I'd highly recommend it. In general, compressing your column families will improve performance by reducing the resources required to get data from disk (even when taking into account the CPU overhead of compressing and decompressing).
-Dima On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:35 AM, jeremy p <athomewithagroove...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > Right now, I'm not using compression on any of my tables, because our data > doesn't take up a huge amount of space. However, I would turn on > compression if there was a chance it would improve HBase's performance. By > performance, I'm talking about the speed with which HBase responds to > requests and retrieves data. > > Should I turn compression on? > > --Jeremy >
