Facebook has released it's new open sourced compression algorithm which is quite efficient and fast at the same time. To read more about it please look here or here.
It's actually so efficient that it seems to be a great candidate for Cassandra table compression.
So to save you all the required work, here I've implemented an Cassandra Zstandard compressor that is ready to use: https://github.com/MatejTymes/cassandra-zstd
