Fuck off IOTA-developer, people can today gzip -9 compress the 1.2GB database to 358MB.
Not to mention, a hub or witness today is hardly putting on any CPU load, so it is even possible to keep the database in memory, compress-decompress on-demand, yet retain same throughput.
Just fuck off IOTA-scammer.
I bet you can find JPG photos on your computer right now. Do gzip -9 on them. And imagine someone stores them in Byteball.
Long pause, probably still zipping. Ok, I'll explain this trivial thing, so you won't waste CPU power on zipping...
It's quite obvious that once people start to care about their GBs they'll do everything to spend as less them on fees as possible. It's a no-brainer to compress data before pushing them to Byteball storage. As the result most of data in Byteball DB will already have near-max entropy. At this point lossless compressing won't give noticeable benefit.
I hope you get now why that your post was misleading...