Have you tried setting output compression to Snappy for Store? grunt> set output.compression.enabled true; grunt> set output.compression.codec org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.SnappyCodec;
You should be able to read and write Snappy compressed files with PigStorage which uses Hadoop TextInputFormat internally. Thanks, Prashant On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com>wrote: > I think I need to write both store and load functions. It appears that only > intermediate output that is stored on temp location can be compressed > using: > > SET mapred.compress.map.output true; > > SET mapred.output.compression org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.SnappyCodec; > > > > Any pointers as to how I can store and load using snappy would be helpful. > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > I am able to write with Snappy compression. But I don't think pig > > provides anything to read such records. Can someone suggest or point me > to > > relevant code that might help me write LoadFunc for it? >
