[KUDU-100] Supporting RLE for 64-bit integer data types

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Backlog
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0
• Component/s: cfile, util
• Target Version/s: Backlog
• Assignee: Haijie Hong
• Reporter: Alex Feinberg
• Created: 03/Feb/14 17:24
• Updated: 10/Feb/17 15:54
• Resolved: 10/Jan/17 00:41

Description

Currently RLE encoder does not handle 64-bit integer data types: this is due to the fact that BitReader/BitWriter do not handle bit widths over 32 bits. This should be possible to (preferably) fix at BitReader/BitWriter level or work around at RleEncoder level.