Re: Compression and Indexing

2011-09-16 Thread Mark Grover
hu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Mark Grover wrote: Hi all, I've a question regarding compression and indexing. I would like to compress our Hive data (presently present as SequenceFile). Also, I have an index on this table and would like to maintain the index as well (i.e. keep using it). Quest

Re: Compression and Indexing

2011-09-15 Thread yongqiang he
>>Question 1: Indexing should work for both. But i suggest u use block compression. >>Question 3 (and perhaps, the most important): block based compression. On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Mark Grover wrote: > Hi all, > I've a question regarding compression and indexi

Compression and Indexing

2011-09-15 Thread Mark Grover
Hi all, I've a question regarding compression and indexing. I would like to compress our Hive data (presently present as SequenceFile). Also, I have an index on this table and would like to maintain the index as well (i.e. keep using it). Question 1: Sequence file compression can be blo