Hello Luc, immagine you want to store millions of SMS messages into a memcached or Redis server. Memory usage can be a problem, compressing this data with Smaz

Hello Luc, immagine you want to store millions of SMS messages into a memcached or Redis server. Memory usage can be a problem, compressing this data with Smaz you can use half the number of servers needed otherwise. The same works for URLs as well. Compression examples against URLs: 'http://google.com' compressed by 59% 'http://programming.reddit.com' compressed by 52% 'http://github.com/antirez/smaz/tree/master' compressed by 46%