[HADOOP-13126] Add Brotli compression codec

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.2
• Component/s: io
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Target Version/s: 2.8.3
• Assignee: Ryan Blue
• Reporter: Ryan Blue
• Created: 10/May/16 18:19
• Updated: 03/Aug/23 14:55

Description

I've been testing Brotli, a new compression library based on LZ77 from Google. Google's brotli benchmarks look really good and we're also seeing a significant improvement in compression size, compression speed, or both.

Brotli preliminary test results

[blue@work Downloads]$ time parquet from test.parquet -o test.snappy.parquet --compression-codec snappy --overwrite                      

real    1m17.106s
user    1m30.804s
sys     0m4.404s

[blue@work Downloads]$ time parquet from test.parquet -o test.br.parquet --compression-codec brotli --overwrite                         

real    1m16.640s
user    1m24.244s
sys     0m6.412s

[blue@work Downloads]$ time parquet from test.parquet -o test.gz.parquet --compression-codec gzip --overwrite                            

real    3m39.496s
user    3m48.736s
sys     0m3.880s

[blue@work Downloads]$ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 blue blue 1068821936 May 10 11:06 test.br.parquet
-rw-r--r-- 1 blue blue 1421601880 May 10 11:10 test.gz.parquet
-rw-r--r-- 1 blue blue 2265950833 May 10 10:30 test.snappy.parquet

Brotli, at quality 1, is as fast as snappy and ends up smaller than gzip-9. Another test resulted in a slightly larger Brotli file than gzip produced, but Brotli was 4x faster. I'd like to get this compression codec into Hadoop.

Brotli is licensed with the MIT license, and the JNI library jbrotli is ALv2.

Issue Links

• is related to: ORC-1463 Support brotli codec
• relates to: PARQUET-521 Add Brotli compression to Parquet
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2723
• links to: JBrotli PR #3