> We observe that they essentially solve the same problem, i.e., how to store a collection of sorted integers with as few as possible bits and support query processing as fast as possible. Due to historical reasons, bitmap compression and inverted list compression were developed as two separated lines of research in the database area and information retrieval area.

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/csjgwang/pubs/SIGMOD17-Bitma...

Presentation slides https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/32bc/322fce0cf6c99b0dd31f1a...

Mentioned in https://github.com/junchangwang/reading-list/blob/main/Datab...

see also

https://roaringbitmap.org/publications/

If you like this, you might like the work of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo_Navarro

The lead author has a great body of research https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/csjgwang/pubs/