Re: Using snappy compresscodec in hive

[Gopal Vijayaraghavan]

> "TBLPROPERTIES ("orc.compress"="Snappy"); " 

That doesn't use the Hadoop SnappyCodec, but uses a pure-java version (which is 
slower, but always works).

The Hadoop snappyCodec needs libsnappy installed on all hosts.

Cheers,
Gopal