[HBASE-1126] Enable choice of codec; i.e. at a minimum enable LZO COMPRESSION support

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.20.0

Environment

All

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Alex Newman
• Created: 14/Jan/09 18:00
• Updated: 13/Sep/09 22:24
• Resolved: 20/May/09 18:31

Description

It would be interesting to see the performance of lzo compressed Column Families Vs Normal ZlibBlock Compression. Based on some very preliminary performance profiling that I have done, as long as the cells are of reasonable size ( > 4k ), the zlib compression really dominates the overhead in random read/scanning situations.