ieb/sparsemapcontent — Issue #175: Compress the payload of the store
Author: ieb
Created: 2012-03-07 23:27:47+00:00
State: open

We currently store the payload uncompressed. This consumes bandwidth to the DB and DB size, not just rdbms Its possible, but not proven that compressing it would be of value. Unfortunately compressing the content of the cached map is almost certainly not worth doing as it would decimate the read-write speed to memory, and I am not seeing any reports of issues with cache size being a problem (yet).

The approach will be to do this at the point at which the store is written, and make the reader of the store capable of detecting compressed streams.