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Phase 1: Low Hanging Fruits

• Index Prefix Compression - efficient and relatively easy to implement
• WAL Compression - could increase throughput and easy to evaluate

Phase 2: The Battle

• Page Compression - efficient, but implementation would be complex. with lots of changes to storage engine

Phase 3: Excellence

• Data Format improvements - moderate value for the system, complex to implement
• Column Compression - depends on new data format 

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