[storage][compression] List different compression algorithms and their use-case

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Open LukeShortCloud opened 6 months ago

LukeShortCloud commented 6 months ago

Compression Algorithm	Use-case
gzip	Low resource usage, good for text files
lz4	Low compression, high speed
xz	High compression, slow speed
zstd	Balance of compression and speed

LukeShortCloud commented 3 months ago

xz and zstd have similar compression ratios but zstd decompression can be 1300% faster than xz.