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		steffes on Feb 21, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90% Just when I thought I knew everything there is to know about compression algorithms, along came Pauli, and Voila, mind now blown.

alyrik on Feb 21, 2012 [–]

Check out what RainStor does to compress relational data by a factor of 20-40 or so (that's 95%-97.5%): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIsVcaMaAgg&feature=playe...

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