← Back to context Comment by waustin 5 months ago This is such a leap forward it's hard to believe it's anything but magic. 2 comments waustin Reply gmuslera 5 months ago I used to see as magic that the old original compression algorithms worked so well with generic text, without worrying about format, file type, structure or other things that could give hints of additional redundancy. wmf 5 months ago Compared to columnar databases this is more of an incremental improvement.
gmuslera 5 months ago I used to see as magic that the old original compression algorithms worked so well with generic text, without worrying about format, file type, structure or other things that could give hints of additional redundancy.
I used to see as magic that the old original compression algorithms worked so well with generic text, without worrying about format, file type, structure or other things that could give hints of additional redundancy.
Compared to columnar databases this is more of an incremental improvement.