[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-5313) Restructure hfiles layout for better compression

["Robert James (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Robert James commented on HBASE-5313:
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This ticket seems to have been abandoned.  Why? The results posted by [~he yongqiang] show a lot of performance gain: half the disk usage.  Has it just been forgotten, or has a decision been made not to do this? Why?

> Restructure hfiles layout for better compression
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>
>                 Key: HBASE-5313
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5313
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: io
>            Reporter: dhruba borthakur
>            Assignee: dhruba borthakur
>
> A HFile block contain a stream of key-values. Can we can organize these kvs on the disk in a better way so that we get much greater compression ratios?
> One option (thanks Prakash) is to store all the keys in the beginning of the block (let's call this the key-section) and then store all their corresponding values towards the end of the block. This will allow us to not-even decompress the values when we are scanning and skipping over rows in the block.
> Any other ideas? 



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