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# 第2章 IoTDB基本概念

## 压缩方式

当时间序列写入并按照指定的类型编码为二进制数据后，IoTDB会使用压缩技术对该数据进行压缩，进一步提升空间存储效率。虽然编码和压缩都旨在提升存储效率，但编码技术通常只适合特定的数据类型（如二阶差分编码只适合与INT32或者INT64编码，存储浮点数需要先将他们乘以10m以转换为整数），然后将它们转换为二进制流。压缩方式（SNAPPY）针对二进制流进行压缩，因此压缩方式的使用不再受数据类型的限制。

IoTDB允许在创建一个时间序列的时候指定该列的压缩方式。现阶段IoTDB现在支持的压缩方式有两种：UNCOMPRESSOR（不压缩）和SNAPPY压缩。压缩方式的指定语法详见本文[5.1节](/#/Documents/0.8.0/chap5/sec1)。
