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From: Jean-Marc Spaggiari <jean-marc@spaggiari.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 19:28:11 -0400
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Subject: Re: How to specify a compression algorithm when creating a table with
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The same way you will define the number of versions, the TTL (if any), etc.
Just look at all the setters to get a sense to what is doable.

We are also going to update the documentation to reflect this.

JM


2014-06-12 19:25 GMT-04:00 jeremy p <athomewithagroovebox@gmail.com>:

> Awesome -- thank you both!
>
> --Jeremy
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Subbiah, Suresh <Suresh.Subbiah@hp.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Jeremy,
> >
> > Here is some code that creates an table using the HBaseAdmin API, with a
> > bunch of options such as compression and specified key boundaries.
> > http://pastebin.com/KNcv03bj
> >
> > The user specified options will be in the StringArrayList tableOptions.
> >
> > This is part of the Trafodion code @  https://github.com/trafodion/core
> >
> > This code too follows the model that Jean-Marc has shown.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Suresh
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jean-Marc Spaggiari [mailto:jean-marc@spaggiari.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 4:55 PM
> > To: user
> > Subject: Re: How to specify a compression algorithm when creating a table
> > with the HBaseAdmin object?
> >
> >       final HBaseAdmin admin = new HBaseAdmin(config);
> >       HTableDescriptor table = new
> > HTableDescriptor(TableName.valueOf(TABLE_NAME));
> >       table.addFamily(new
> > HColumnDescriptor(CF_DEFAULT).setCompressionType(Algorithm.SNAPPY));
> >       admin.createTable(table);
> >
> >
> > 2014-06-11 17:47 GMT-04:00 jeremy p <athomewithagroovebox@gmail.com>:
> >
> > > I'm currently creating a table using the HBaseAdmin object.  The
> > > reason I'm doing it with the HBaseAdmin object is that I need to
> > > pre-split the table by specifying the start key, end key, and number
> > > of regions.  I want to use Snappy compression for this table, however,
> > > I haven't seen any way to do this using the HBaseAdmin object.  In all
> > > of the examples I've seen, they're creating the table from the HBase
> > > shell.  How can I create a table with the HBaseAdmin object, and have
> > that table use Snappy compression?
> > >
> > > --Jeremy
> > >
> >
>

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