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[jira] [Work started] (HBASE-6597) Block Encoding Size Estimation

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6597?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Work on HBASE-6597 started by Mikhail Bautin.

> Block Encoding Size Estimation
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>
>                 Key: HBASE-6597
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6597
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: io
>    Affects Versions: 0.89-fb
>            Reporter: Brian Nixon
>            Assignee: Mikhail Bautin
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: D5895.1.patch
>
>
> Blocks boundaries as created by current writers are determined by the size of the unencoded data. However, blocks in memory are kept encoded. By using an estimate for the encoded size of the block, we can get greater consistency in size.

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