Compression

There are a number of different kinds of compression in MariaDB

Title Description
Encryption, Hashing and Compression Functions Functions used for encryption, hashing and compression.
Storage-Engine Independent Column Compression Storage-engine independent support for column compression.
InnoDB Page Compression InnoDB page compression, which is more sophisticated than the COMPRESSED row format.
Compression Plugins Five MariaDB compression libraries are available as plugins.
Compressing Events to Reduce Size of the Binary Log Binlog events can be compressed to save space on disk and in network transfers
InnoDB COMPRESSED Row Format Similar to the COMPACT row format, but can store even more data on overflow pages.
ColumnStore Compression Mode ColumnStore has the ability to compress data
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