It's really subjective based on your computing resources client CPU + network speed and your server CPU if you can't compress ahead of time. Here's a great page

It's really subjective based on your computing resources client CPU + network speed and your server CPU if you can't compress ahead of time. Here's a great page that captures this: https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/#transfer-plus-processing https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/#transfer-plus-pro... TL;DR: Your optimal compression algorithm will vary based on these parameters. There's no universal answer.