Hi Jeremy, I always recommend turning on snappy compression, I have ~20% performance increases. On Jun 14, 2014 10:25 AM, "Ted Yu" <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You may have read Doug Meil's writeup where he tried out different > ColumnFamily > compressions : > > https://blogs.apache.org/hbase/ > > Cheers > > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:33 AM, jeremy p <athomewithagroove...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > Thank you -- I'll go ahead and try compression. > > > > --Jeremy > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Dima Spivak <dspi...@cloudera.com> > > wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > >