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> Images and video are dense arrays.

Wouldn't that take up a lot of storage space if there is no image or video compression, and you're storing it as raw pixel & frame arrays? Is the only option to apply file compression like GZIP on that data, or can I compress the data with image/video compression like JPEG/MPEG?

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TileDB is designed around supporting multiple compressors or filters. We have architected the code so that we can add different filters as we find use cases or customer requests. Currently we support compressors such as gzip, bzip2, zstd, lz4 and also filters like double-delta, byteshuffle or and RLE. For a complete list see our docs[1]. Adding support for specific image compressors such as JPEG or video codecs is on our roadmap.

[1] https://docs.tiledb.com/main/basic-concepts/tile-filters

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