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Re:What database would you use to store (min) 10 billion obj... by planck on Friday May 08, 2009 @03:46AM (#599332)
This is also known as the ZIP compression algorithm.
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Re:What database would you use to store (min) 10 billion obj... by webignition on Friday May 08, 2009 @05:03AM (#599389)
But then you might end up not being able to see the forest of data for all the Huffman trees.
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Re:What database would you use to store (min) 10 billion obj... by gaius on Friday May 08, 2009 @09:15AM (#599576)
It's called "deduplication" in databaseland, it's common strategy for tape backups.
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