[jira] Commented: (AVRO-135) add compression to data files

["Doug Cutting (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-135:
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The first codec to implement is probably zlib, since it has built-in support in Java and Python and its license is compatible with Apache, so we can use it from C and C++ too.  I propose that we name this codec "zlib".

The second codec to implement might be LZF.  Like LZO, this is much faster than zlib/gzip, without achieving quite as much compression.  Unlike LZO, it's license is compatible with Apache.

http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/liblzf.html

There's a Java port of LZF, so we would not need to use native code from Java.

http://h2database.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/h2/src/main/org/h2/compress/CompressLZF.java

Unfortunately I can't find a Python binding.  How hard is it to call C from Python?



> add compression to data files
> -----------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-135
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-135
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: java, spec
>            Reporter: Doug Cutting
>
> We should add support for at least one compression codec to data files.

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