Yes, zstandard turned out to be the best option in all our tests on small to really large data (couple of mb to gigabytes filesize). A few percent better compr

Yes, zstandard turned out to be the best option in all our tests on small to really large data (couple of mb to gigabytes filesize). A few percent better compression than gzip and nearly 50 % faster decompression. Gzip is pretty slow in the python standard lib. The python zstandard bindings unfortunately do not allow back seeking.