[jira] [Commented] (AVRO-806) add a column-major codec for data files

["Jakob Homan (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jakob Homan commented on AVRO-806:
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(1) sounds good.  

I'm curious about the decision to go with 1 row group/block and 1 block/file.  The recommendation is to increase the block size, up to a 1 gb or more.  Any background on this design decision?  Any reason not to go with multiple, smaller row groups per file ala RCFile?

                
> add a column-major codec for data files
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-806
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-806
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: java, spec
>            Reporter: Doug Cutting
>            Assignee: Doug Cutting
>         Attachments: AVRO-806.patch, AVRO-806-v2.patch, avro-file-columnar.pdf
>
>
> Define a codec that, when a data file's schema is a record schema, writes blocks within the file in column-major order.  This would permit better compression and also permit efficient skipping of fields that are not of interest.

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