What is Concept of Data compression in Hadoop
Ask by Jonas Stuart
Updated 17 Sep 2020
Concept of Data compression in Hadoop
The massive data volumes that are very comman in a typical Hadoop deployment make compression a necessity. Data compression definitely saves us a great deal of storage space and it also makes sure to accelerate the movement of that data throughout our cluster. It’s not a big surprise that a numerous available compression schemes, called codecs, are out there for us to consider.