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List of Pages in Category Compression (16 pages)

compression

A mechanism to reduce the size of a file so that it takes up less disk space for storage and consumes less network bandwidth when transferred. Common compression tools used with Apache Hadoop include gzip, bzip2, Snappy, and LZO.


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