[WikiEN-l] Putting Wikipedia on a CD or DVD
Magnus Manske
magnus.manske at web.de
Wed Mar 23 22:00:10 UTC 2005
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David Gerard schrieb:
> Are there compression algorithms good for text that go smaller than bzip2
> and are fast to uncompress even though they may be slow to compress?
There's a commercial variant of the public domain sqlite engine
(database in a single file, "server" as a linkable library, understands
most of SQL) which can store fields in the sqlite database as zipped BLOBs.
A better alternative might be to write a wrapper around sqlite that can
read a bzip2ed sqlite file.
Ultimately though, en.wikipedia will grow beyond any compression
algorithm's capability. Maybe we should go ahead to DVD, waste an
additional half a gig or so on an uncompressed sqlite file, and have a
fulltext index and some pretty images.
Magnus
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