Today we are glad to introduce support for a new compression algorithm in Percona XtraBackup 8.0.30 – Zstandard (ZSTD). Results shows that ZSTD not only overca

Today we are glad to introduce support for a new compression algorithm in Percona XtraBackup 8.0.30 – Zstandard (ZSTD). Results shows that ZSTD not only overcame LZ4 results on all tests, but it also brought backup size to half of its original size. When streaming is added to the mix is when we see the biggest difference between both algorithms, with ZSTD overcoming LZ4 with an even bigger margin. This can bring users and organizations a huge amount of savings in backup storage, either on-premises or especially in the cloud – where we are charged for each GB of storage we use.