> - They got rid of the heavyweight compression and just stuck with the Delta/Dictionary/RLE stuff. Heavyweight compression never did anything anyway, and was super annoying to implement, and basically required you to pull in 20 dependencies.
"Heavyweight compression" as in zstd and brotli? That's very useful for columns of non-repeated strings. I get compression ratios in the order of 1% on some of those columns, because they are mostly ASCII and have lots of common substrings.
"Heavyweight compression" as in zstd and brotli? That's very useful for columns of non-repeated strings. I get compression ratios in the order of 1% on some of those columns, because they are mostly ASCII and have lots of common substrings.