Appendix B. Compression In HBase

Table of Contents

B.1. CompressionTest Tool
B.2. hbase.regionserver.codecs
B.3. LZO
B.4. GZIP

B.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.