LZO encoding - Amazon Redshift
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LZO encoding

LZO encoding provides a very high compression ratio with good performance. LZO encoding works especially well for CHAR and VARCHAR columns that store very long character strings. They are especially good for free-form text, such as product descriptions, user comments, or JSON strings.