Re: Compression of full-page-writes

From: KONDO Mitsumasa <kondo(dot)mitsumasa(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Compression of full-page-writes
Date: 2013-10-15 06:11:22
Message-ID: 525CDC8A.3060202@lab.ntt.co.jp
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(2013/10/15 13:33), Amit Kapila wrote:
> Snappy is good mainly for un-compressible data, see the link below:
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAZKuFZCOCHsswQM60ioDO_hk12tA7OG3YcJA8v=4YebMOA-wA@mail.gmail.com
This result was gotten in ARM architecture, it is not general CPU.
Please see detail document.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1aim6s/lz4_extremely_fast_compression_algorithm/c8y0ew9

I found compression algorithm test in HBase. I don't read detail, but it
indicates snnapy algorithm gets best performance.
http://blog.erdemagaoglu.com/post/4605524309/lzo-vs-snappy-vs-lzf-vs-zlib-a-comparison-of

In fact, most of modern NoSQL storages use snappy. Because it has good
performance and good licence(BSD license).

> I think it is bit difficult to prove that any one algorithm is best
> for all kind of loads.
I think it is necessary to make best efforts in community than I do the best
choice with strict test.

Regards,
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Mitsumasa KONDO
NTT Open Source Software Center

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