But string interning is what they're doing, isn't it?
> Dictionary compression is a well-known and widely applied technique. The basic idea is that you store all the unique input values within a dictionary, and then you compress the input by substituting the input values with smaller fixed-size integer keys that act as offsets into the dictionary. Building a CedarDB dictionary on our input data and compressing the data would look like this:
That's string interning!!
Is interning just too old a concept now and it has to be rediscovered/reinvented and renamed?
But string interning is what they're doing, isn't it?
> Dictionary compression is a well-known and widely applied technique. The basic idea is that you store all the unique input values within a dictionary, and then you compress the input by substituting the input values with smaller fixed-size integer keys that act as offsets into the dictionary. Building a CedarDB dictionary on our input data and compressing the data would look like this:
That's string interning!!
Is interning just too old a concept now and it has to be rediscovered/reinvented and renamed?