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I went through a similar process when I converted wikipedia xml dumps into sqlite.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28013347



This is almost the same. We both do compression. The compression layer it transparent to the application via VFS.

I have tried this trick with Wikipedia too. It don’t have the numbers. I’ll push up the code when I can.




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