TokuDB allows these databases to add more data, to improve speed of response to questions of the database, and to reduce the amount of data that needs to be stored and transmitted through excellent compression.

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Nokia's Xpress Browser and Opera Mini do this through extensive use of compression that relies on a middleman server operated by those companies.

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Among the most important of those is that SimpliVity reduces the volume of data that companies need to store and retrieve through de-deduplication and compression.

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By comparison, in dealing with the vast realms of low-content data, just about the only way to cost-effectively refine down to the good stuff will be through high-powered data compression.

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That said, the Bank of American Merrill Lynch High-Grade Bond Master Index is up 3.75% through April 30 as a result of spread compression across the credit markets from the more lofty levels of the fourth quarter.

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Through sampling and experimentation, Girl Talk is able to achieve a compression of cultural time that makes the music a living distillation of pop.

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