How Uber Engineering Evaluated JSON Encoding and Compression Algorithms to Put the Squeeze on Trip DataFor compression, we put three lossless and widely accepted libraries to the test: Snappy zlib Bzip2 (BZ2) Snappy aims to provide high speeds and reasonable compression. BZ2 trades speed for better compression, and zlib falls somewhere between them. Testing Our goal was to find the combination of encoding protocol and compression algorithm with the most compact result at the highest speed. We teste
