Compression is now supported by the new WiredTiger storage engine.
Snappy disk compression is on by default and there are more options configurable.
See SERVER-15953 for more information.
WAS:
When storing textual data (and having more CPU than IO capacity) it'd be nice to have an option to have the data stored gzip compressed on disk.
- depends on
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SERVER-15953 Integrate WiredTiger storage engine
- Closed
- is duplicated by
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CDRIVER-39 Need a new feature of "compression" in MongoDB
- Closed
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SERVER-9782 Compress Oplog
- Closed
- related to
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SERVER-863 Tokenize the field names
- Closed
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SERVER-15974 Vendorize zlib 1.2.8
- Closed