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Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 11:36:05 -0400
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Subject: Re: Does compression ever improve performance?
From: "Kevin O'dell" <kevin.odell@cloudera.com>
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Hi Jeremy,

  I always recommend turning on snappy compression,  I have ~20%
performance increases.
On Jun 14, 2014 10:25 AM, "Ted Yu" <yuzhihong@gmail.com> wrote:

> You may have read Doug Meil's writeup where he tried out different
> ColumnFamily
> compressions :
>
> https://blogs.apache.org/hbase/
>
> Cheers
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:33 AM, jeremy p <athomewithagroovebox@gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Thank you -- I'll go ahead and try compression.
> >
> > --Jeremy
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Dima Spivak <dspivak@cloudera.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I'd highly recommend it. In general, compressing your column families
> > will
> > > improve performance by reducing the resources required to get data from
> > > disk (even when taking into account the CPU overhead of compressing and
> > > decompressing).
> > >
> > > -Dima
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:35 AM, jeremy p <
> > athomewithagroovebox@gmail.com
> > > >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hey all,
> > > >
> > > > Right now, I'm not using compression on any of my tables, because our
> > > data
> > > > doesn't take up a huge amount of space.  However, I would turn on
> > > > compression if there was a chance it would improve HBase's
> performance.
> > >  By
> > > > performance, I'm talking about the speed with which HBase responds to
> > > > requests and retrieves data.
> > > >
> > > > Should I turn compression on?
> > > >
> > > > --Jeremy
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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