ECO-DAT-DATA-011 — Lack of compression in object storage¶

Category: Data (DAT)
Family: Data (DATA)
Layer: Data
Tier: 3
Severity: warning
Tags: compression, object-storage
Legacy ID: ECO-DATA-011

Summary¶

Uncompressed objects waste storage and bandwidth.

Compression reduces stored bytes and transfer cost.

{
  "confidence": 0.7,
  "notes": "Especially strong for text/structured data.",
  "type": "storage"
}

{
  "languages": [
    "infra"
  ],
  "method": "trace"
}

{
  "guidance": "Compress at write; enforce content-encoding where appropriate.",
  "tradeoffs": "CPU overhead at read/write."
}

{
  "system_layers": [
    "data"
  ]
}