Appendix A. Compression In HBase

Table of Contents

A.1. CompressionTest Tool
A.2. hbase.regionserver.codecs
A.3. LZO
A.4. GZIP
A.5. SNAPPY

A.1. CompressionTest Tool

HBase includes a tool to test compression is set up properly. To run it, type /bin/hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.CompressionTest. This will emit usage on how to run the tool.