What is the best compression algorithm that allows random reads/writes in a file? I know that any adaptive compression algorithms would be out of the question. And I know huffman encoding w...

This may fall in the realm of "not really feasible" or "not really worth the effort" but here goes. I'm trying to randomly access records stored inside a multi-part gzip file. Specifically, the fi...

I have an array of objects (say, images), which is too large to fit into memory (e.g. 40GB). But my code needs to be able to randomly access these objects at runtime. What is the best way to do th...

I am looking for an efficient way to create a file whose size is unknown but can range from mb's to gb's and fill its content randomly. I may write first 200 bytes than jump to the end and write la...

I'm in the process of making some changes to a library that I'm using. In order to reduce memory usage the library is writing its temporary data to disk instead of keeping it in memory. However, fo...