[HIVE-2692] Add compressors for qualitative data types

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Contrib
• Assignee: Krishna Kumar
• Reporter: Krishna Kumar
• Created: 05/Jan/12 04:27
• Updated: 05/Jan/12 04:27

Description

Any data type (int, string et al) for which the frequency of occurrences can be counted (a.k.a. categorical or enumeration types), can be compressed via methods such as huffman, arithmetic and ppm compressors.