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Small strings compression library

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 3 stories, 5 comments · first 2009-03-31 · latest 2026-02-02

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  1. This scheme reminds me of smaz ( https://github.com/antirez/smaz ) but with dynamically generated dictionaries.
    comment by cespare · 2026-02-02 · in Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems
  2. …reduction of size between 10% and more than 50% for some small strings (less than 100 bytes). [1] https://github.com/antirez/smaz
    comment by giovannibonetti · 2020-07-14 · in PGX: Write Postgres extensions in Rust instead of C
  3. …in turn benefit general performance? One short-string-compression-library to compare with might be https://github.com/antirez/smaz by the Antirez, the author of redis. In the last decade Tokudb and then MyRocks showed how to do a fast…
    comment by willvarfar · 2020-03-11 · in Memory-Efficient Search Trees for Database Management Systems [pdf]
  4. Neat but SMAZ has better performance :-) https://github.com/antirez/smaz/tree/master
    comment by fsiefken · 2017-05-02 · in Show HN: Shortern URIs using Huffman Coding, not a database
  5. …URLs: 'http://google.com' compressed by 59% 'http://programming.reddit.com' compressed by 52% 'http://github.com/antirez/smaz/tree/master' compressed by 46%
    comment by antirez · 2009-03-31 · in Smaz - short strings compression library