Configure HBase to use compression

[davidonlaptop]

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[jbeliveau]

HBase supports different types of compression. It looks like we just need to specify it at the table creation. If we want a quick win, we can use GZip since it's already included in the distribution.

Instead of:

create 'tableName', 'familyName'

We can use:

create 'tableName', { NAME=>'familyName', COMPRESSION=>'gz'}

We would need additional installation and configuration steps to use other algorithms (LZO, Snappy). Let me know what you prefer.

[mikefaille]

It's likely what I do for my case : https://github.com/mikefaille/docker-bosun-fullstack/blob/master/conf/create_table.sh