Data Storage on Mia Heidenstedt

Hyper Text Compression: Shrinking Wikipedia to 10.7% of its Size

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:23:19 +0000

This is a super cool leaderboard for lossless text compression via NLP (and yes, that includes AI)! The top solution manages to compress the first GB of the English Wikipedia to a whopping 10.7% of its original size, including the compression program itself!

Release: OuroborosDB Data Storage Calculator

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 11:17:10 +0200

I forgot to mention that i released a new tool for my project ouroboros-db, so here it is:

The “OuroborosDB Overhead Calculator” is a little tool which helps you to calculate the overhead of erasure coding systems while also considering the overhead of indexes and the blocks themselves. It is kinda fun to play around with so give it a try!

Ouroboros DB Dev Journal: Erasure Coding

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:55:05 +0200

This is a Dev Journal for the Ouroboros DB Project.
I try to write down my thoughts and ideas Somewhat structured to have it as a reference for later and i publish it to give this information a chance to help other and to get feedback from the community.
If you have feedback you can write me on my Mastodon.