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Re: More details on compression wanted
Posted by: Jim Starkey
Date: January 24, 2007 03:09PM

I actually did some experimentation with that last year. The bottom line is that even with a fast, multi-core, 64 bit processor, the disk could fetch pages faster than the processor could decompress. And worse, the processor could be doing something useful while the disk was doing its thing. And even worse, JPEGs and PDFs are already compressed, so the whole compression effort reaped no benefit.

Somebody needs to find or invent a lower overhead compression scheme suitable for databases. I'd be willing sacrifice amounts of compression to be blindingly fast.

That said, the Falcon encoding results in a record smaller than a run length encoded record, so the term "compression" doesn't bother me much. But personally, I use the word "encoding".

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