SQLite compressed text-history prototypes

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Research: SQLite compressed text-history prototypes I'm perennially interested in options for storing revision histories in relational databases. While out on a dog walk I had a new idea: how about taking the full text of every prior version in a big JSON array of strings and then applying zlib or zstd compression to the whole thing? Surely that would compress really well du

Published 9 Aug 2026
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