[KUDU-2808] Correct documentation for default compression

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.10.0
• Component/s: documentation
• Assignee: Mitch Barnett
• Reporter: Mitch Barnett
• Created: 02/May/19 16:27
• Updated: 06/May/19 19:49
• Resolved: 06/May/19 19:37

Description

Our documentation states: "By default, columns are stored uncompressed."

However, that's not entirely accurate. We use bitshuffle encoding by default for most data types, which uses LZ4 compression. Thus, by default columns are compressed via bitshuffle/LZ4.