Data Compression Benchmark Suite

(Cenk Sahinalp, Nasir Rajpoot)

Welcome to the data compression benchmark suite. This page provides you a list of the data sets which are used usually for benchmark testing a compression software. If you'd like to suggest some benchmark data/software for compression, please let us know by email at cenk@dcs.warwick.ac.uk or nasir@dcs.warwick.ac.uk.

If you are looking for a list of pointers to other compression websites, you might find the compression pointers page maintained by Stuart Inglis to be useful. Mitsuharu Arimura maintains a page, containing his bookmarks on compression, which is also a very well-organized list of such pointers. Another list of compression links can be found by clicking here.

Data Sets FP Experimental Data Sets Biological and medical data (4 files in gzipped tar format, 1964K) Files from the Calgary corpus (19 files in gzipped tar format, 1047K) Files from the Canterbury corpus, large set (3 files in gzipped tar format, 3183K) Binary IID data (15 files in gzipped tar format, 932K) Other Corpora Canterbury Corpus Calgary Corpus

Compression Software Flexible Parsing LZW-FP for Sun Solaris (compressed tar format, 71K) FPA for Sun Solaris (compressed tar format, 70K) LZW-FP for Irix (compressed tar format, 15K) FPA for Irix (compressed tar format, 15K) LZO LZP and LZCB LZRW Conferences IEEE DCC'99 CPM'99