Comment by vermilingua

It isn't 10MB of plain text though, it's 10MB of binary SQLite database. I agree that compression would be useful here, but I don't think a simple gzip DEFLATE would be.

I was curious so I compressed that torrent db with a few different methods:

  11.1MB 11116544B dump.sqlite
  10.2MB 10155419B dump.csv
   6.6MB  6573399B dump.sqlite.gz
   6.6MB  6565771B dump.zip
   5.6MB  5616842B dump.rar

gzip is certainly suitable to be used in this situation, I stand corrected.