How does DMT compare to compression in terms of File Size Reduction?
DMT will usually achieve ~85% of the File Size Reduction achieved by compression. However, once the data are miniaturized and transformed into the MDF format, MDF provides full seek, search, edit and display of data in its miniaturized state, without a decompression step. However, for MDF files that are shared, DMT will often achieve levels of File Size Reduction well in excess of compression. In this mode, DMT has the ability to discover recurring data sequences across a suite of mapping, text or image files, and abstract these sequences into a Common, pre-loaded Sequence Dictionary. This means that MDF encoded files are able to achieve file size reductions well in excess of traditional compression techniques. In data sets that have many common, repeated patterns, miniaturization ratios using a common Sequence Dictionary can often achieve a 10:1 File Size Reduction. For example, datasets such as XML / HTML used in web pages and GIF or BMP files used in mapping displays exhibit these c
