This article demonstrates how specially crafted but ordinary gzip archives can be used as a database like storage. It also introduces a Python package and explains how it works. gzip is a popular file compression format to store large amounts of raw data. It has a good data compression ratio, but relatively slow compression/decompression speed. Many companies use it in Big data applications when they need to store compressed CSV or JSON lines files. Such file formats are row-oriented and usua...
