[HADOOP-17125] Using snappy-java in SnappyCodec

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.3.1, 3.4.0
• Component/s: common
• Labels: pull-request-available

Release Note

The SnappyCodec uses the snappy-java compression library, rather than explicitly referencing native binaries. It contains the native libraries for many operating systems and instruction sets, falling back to a pure java implementation. It does requires the snappy-java.jar is on the classpath. It can be found in hadoop-common/lib, and has already been present as part of the avro dependencies

• Assignee: L. C. Hsieh
• Reporter: DB Tsai
• Created: 13/Jul/20 06:57
• Updated: 23/Jun/23 09:47
• Resolved: 07/Oct/20 12:48

Description

In Hadoop, we use native libs for snappy codec which has several disadvantages:

• It requires native libhadoop and libsnappy to be installed in system LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and they have to be installed separately on each node of the clusters, container images, or local test environments which adds huge complexities from deployment point of view. In some environments, it requires compiling the natives from sources which is non-trivial. Also, this approach is platform dependent; the binary may not work in different platform, so it requires recompilation.
• It requires extra configuration of java.library.path to load the natives, and it results higher application deployment and maintenance cost for users.

Projects such as Spark and Parquet use [snappy-java|https://github.com/xerial/snappy-java] which is JNI-based implementation. It contains native binaries for Linux, Mac, and IBM in jar file, and it can automatically load the native binaries into JVM from jar without any setup. If a native implementation can not be found for a platform, it can fallback to pure-java implementation of snappy based on [aircompressor|https://github.com/airlift/aircompressor/tree/master/src/main/java/io/airlift/compress/snappy].

Issue Links

• is related to: SPARK-36681 Fail to load Snappy codec
• is related to: HADOOP-17292 Using lz4-java in Lz4Codec
• is related to: HADOOP-17464 Create hadoop-compression module
• relates to: HADOOP-17891 lz4-java and snappy-java should be excluded from relocation in shaded Hadoop libraries
• requires: HADOOP-17205 Move personality file from Yetus to Hadoop repository
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2201
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2297
• links to: https://github.com/apache/hadoop/pull/2201