[ACCUMULO-1798] Allow users to specify compaction strategy when initiating a compaction

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.0
• Assignee: Keith Turner
• Reporter: Keith Turner
• Created: 21/Oct/13 18:25
• Updated: 16/Apr/15 17:57
• Resolved: 05/Dec/14 04:20

Description

When a user initiates a compaction over a range a tablets, they may not want to compact all of the file in a tablet. To facilitate this we could allow a compaction strategy to be set and configured. ACCUMULO-1451 added compaction strategies for system initiated compactions, this would extend that concept to user initiated compactions.

Making this change would allow a user to do something like "Compact files that are less than 10M for tablets in the range b to f"

Issue Links

• breaks: ACCUMULO-3467 MetadataIT.testFlushAndCompact occasionally fails
• depends upon: ACCUMULO-3183 Compaction strategy does not use per table classpath
• depends upon: ACCUMULO-1451 Make Compaction triggers extensible
• is depended upon by: ACCUMULO-3134 Add options for file selection and creation to compact command
• is related to: ACCUMULO-3737 Create 1.7.0 release notes
• links to: Review