LZ4 – Extremely fast compression
LZ4 is so fast, that in make sense to use it everywhere over uncompressed data. Even storing items in-memory compressed sometimes is profitable as you can fit more items in memory.<p>Still zstd offers way better compression and got variable difficulty factor: <a href="https://github.com/facebook/zstd" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/facebook/zstd</a> Decompression is always fast, but you can trade off compression vs. ratio factor.<p>In general if send data over network zstd is quite profitable. Even network attached disk AWS EBS or AWS S3 it can be a hugely profitable.