This is a good intro for those (like me) who are unfamiliar: https://blogs.oracle.com/mysqlinnodb/entry/innodb_compression_improvements_in_mysql https://blogs.

This is a good intro for those (like me) who are unfamiliar: https://blogs.oracle.com/mysqlinnodb/entry/innodb_compression_improvements_in_mysql https://blogs.oracle.com/mysqlinnodb/entry/innodb_compressio... I know that a lot of work has been done on InnoDB compression, but I didn't quite grasp the extent, thinking it wasn't far different from Postgres ( http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/storage-toast.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/storage-toast.... ).