That’s fascinating. I guess you probably can’t open source it, but I’d love to read a blog post about it.
I used this same library to encode telephone porting (LNP) instructions. That is a database of about 600M entries, mapping one phone number to another. With a bit of manipulation when creating the file, you go from 12GB+ naive encoding as strings (one client was using nearly 50GB after expanding it to a hashtable) to under a GB. Still better than any RMDBS can do and small enough to easily toss this in-RAM on every routing box.
Some day I'd like to write it in Rust and implement vectorized encoding and more compression schemes. Like an optimized SSTable just for integers.