Table 5.

Peak memory usage for compression and decompression

Dataset	Compression (GB)				Decompression (MB)
	BOSS	UST-Compress	ESS-Tip-Compress	ESS-Compress	UST-Compress	ESS-Tip-Compress		ESS-Compress
					MFC-D	MFC-D	Core	MFC-D	Core
R. sphaeroides	2	3	3	3	509	513	3	513	4
Human RNA-seq	4	3	3	6	515	515	3	515	38
Gingiva metagenome	4	2	2	5	515	515	3	515	4
Soybean	4	2	2	3	515	515	3	515	12
Tongue metagenome	4	2	2	9	515	515	3	515	6
Whole human	5	12	11	42	515	515	3	515	735

Decompression takes far less memory than compression, so compression memory is shown in GB and decompression memory in MB. Decompression memory is split in the same manner as the running time in Table 4