I created a ticket for the patch
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1456

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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Steven Schlansker <
sschlans...@opentable.com> wrote:

>
> On May 7, 2014, at 7:16 AM, Maung Than <maung_t...@apple.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi  All,
> >
> > I have read this posting from linkedIn Team member;
> http://geekmantra.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/compression-in-kafka-gzip-or-snappy/;
>  Thanks.
> >
> > I have few questions and thoughts:
> >
> > 4) Has any one else done Snappy Vs. GZIP comparison and chosen one over
> the other. If so what are your findings and why if you could share as we
> are going through this expertise.
>
> I compared GZIP vs Snappy vs LZ4 for HTTP data a little while ago.
>
> We found that GZIP was so slow that we could not saturate our network
> connection with GZIP enabled - it just takes too much CPU!  We decided that
> GZIP might make sense over WAN links but there’s no way it makes sense over
> a LAN.
>
> Snappy was much faster.
>
> LZ4 was faster than GZIP and smaller than Snappy.  We switched to LZ4 and
> never looked back.  It would be cool if Kafka supported it :)
>
>

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