Percona invites you to attend a webinar Wednesday, January 27th, with CEO Peter Zaitsev: Compression In Open Source Databases. Register now!

Data growth has been tremendous in the last decade and shows no signs of stopping. To deal with this trend database technologies have implemented a number of approaches, and data compression is by far the most common and important. Compression in open source databases is complicated, and there are a lot of different approaches – each with their own implications.

In this talk we will perform a survey of compression in some of the most popular open source database engines including: Innodb, TokuDB, MongoDB, WiredTiger, RocksDB, and PostgreSQL.

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