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How interesting the new stuff I can learn in an open forum like this!

Well no it's not the same it has several differences but the two major are:

One, it can shrink storage up to 100 times, unlike traditional compression which saves 50-70% with prohibiting performance loss. Two, data access can actually be up to 100 times faster, while in traditional compression data access for many small files can be too slow.