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From: "Lars Hofhansl (Commented) (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (HBASE-4218) Data Block Encoding of KeyValues
  (aka delta encoding / prefix compression)
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Lars Hofhansl commented on HBASE-4218:
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One more thought about ENCODED_IN_CACHE_ONLY (and then I'll shut up about this)...

If we ever wanted to extend this in the future and allow disk only encoding, maybe a better way would be to have ENCODING and ENCODE_ON_DISK. ENCODE_ON_DISK (default false) would just be the inverse of what ENCODED_IN_CACHE_ONLY is. That way (if we felt so inclined) we can add ENCODE_IN_CACHE later and allow it to be false.

                
> Data Block Encoding of KeyValues  (aka delta encoding / prefix compression)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-4218
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4218
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: io
>    Affects Versions: 0.94.0
>            Reporter: Jacek Migdal
>            Assignee: Mikhail Bautin
>              Labels: compression
>             Fix For: 0.94.0
>
>         Attachments: 0001-Delta-encoding-fixed-encoded-scanners.patch, 0001-Delta-encoding.patch, 4218-v16.txt, 4218.txt, D447.1.patch, D447.10.patch, D447.11.patch, D447.12.patch, D447.13.patch, D447.14.patch, D447.15.patch, D447.16.patch, D447.17.patch, D447.2.patch, D447.3.patch, D447.4.patch, D447.5.patch, D447.6.patch, D447.7.patch, D447.8.patch, D447.9.patch, Data-block-encoding-2011-12-23.patch, Delta-encoding.patch-2011-12-22_11_52_07.patch, Delta_encoding_with_memstore_TS.patch, open-source.diff
>
>
> A compression for keys. Keys are sorted in HFile and they are usually very similar. Because of that, it is possible to design better compression than general purpose algorithms,
> It is an additional step designed to be used in memory. It aims to save memory in cache as well as speeding seeks within HFileBlocks. It should improve performance a lot, if key lengths are larger than value lengths. For example, it makes a lot of sense to use it when value is a counter.
> Initial tests on real data (key length = ~ 90 bytes , value length = 8 bytes) shows that I could achieve decent level of compression:
>  key compression ratio: 92%
>  total compression ratio: 85%
>  LZO on the same data: 85%
>  LZO after delta encoding: 91%
> While having much better performance (20-80% faster decompression ratio than LZO). Moreover, it should allow far more efficient seeking which should improve performance a bit.
> It seems that a simple compression algorithms are good enough. Most of the savings are due to prefix compression, int128 encoding, timestamp diffs and bitfields to avoid duplication. That way, comparisons of compressed data can be much faster than a byte comparator (thanks to prefix compression and bitfields).
> In order to implement it in HBase two important changes in design will be needed:
> -solidify interface to HFileBlock / HFileReader Scanner to provide seeking and iterating; access to uncompressed buffer in HFileBlock will have bad performance
> -extend comparators to support comparison assuming that N first bytes are equal (or some fields are equal)
> Link to a discussion about something similar:
> http://search-hadoop.com/m/5aqGXJEnaD1/hbase+windows&subj=Re+prefix+compression

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