Beyond Compression: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Lossless Floating-Point Compression

Summary: Comprehensive empirical evaluation of lossless floating-point compressors for columnar engines, measuring compression ratio, in-situ DB query performance, and ML queries (distance, k-NN/RAG); implemented in Rust and released as a library. Finds clear trade-offs: no single method dominates both space and query speed—some compressors yield higher compression but slower DB/ML query performance. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 14054
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 10,741 | 25.28%
DOI: 10.14778/3749646.3749701

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