Also, compression. CPUs are more than capable of handling it on the fly, and the reduced dataset size helps IO. This [0] is a brief post on MySQL, but most of

Also, compression. CPUs are more than capable of handling it on the fly, and the reduced dataset size helps IO. This [0] is a brief post on MySQL, but most of it applies equally to Postgres. [0]: https://www.percona.com/blog/mysql-zfs-performance-update/ https://www.percona.com/blog/mysql-zfs-performance-update/