SAP SE
ADVANCED DATABASE COMPRESSION

Abstract:

A method, a system, and a computer program product for executing a database compression. A compressed string dictionary having a block size and a front coding bucket size is generated from a dataset. Front coding is applied to one or more buckets of strings in the dictionary having the front coding bucket size to generate one or more front coded buckets of strings. One or more portions of the generated front coded buckets of strings are concatenated to form one or more blocks having the block size. Each block is compressed. A set of compressed blocks is stored. The set of the compressed blocks stores all strings in the dataset.