A Brief Study of Data Compression Algorithms

Data Compression is the science of representing data in a compact form. For last decades, Data compression has been one of the critical enabling technologies for the ongoing digital data revolution. There are lot of data compression algorithms which are available to compress files of different formats. This paper present survey of several lossless data compression techniques and its corresponding algorithms. A set of selected algorithms are studied and examined. This paper concluded by stating which algorithm performs well for text data.