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HBase Administration Cookbook
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HBase Administration Cookbook

by Yifeng Jiang
August 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
332 pages
7h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using compression

One of the most important features of HBase is the use of data compression. It's important because:

  • Compression reduces the number of bytes written to/read from HDFS
  • Saves disk usage
  • Improves the efficiency of network bandwidth when getting data from a remote server

HBase supports the GZip and LZO codec. Our suggestion is to use the LZO compression algorithm because of its fast data decompression and low CPU usage. As a better compression ratio is preferred for the system, you should consider GZip.

Unfortunately, HBase cannot ship with LZO because of a license issue. HBase is Apache-licensed, whereas LZO is GPL-licensed. Therefore, we need to install LZO ourselves. We will use the hadoop-lzo library, which brings splittable LZO ...

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