Reduced the memory usage, as well as hopefully fixing the memory leak. Also implemented database compression across rows, including Brotli compression and bitshifting.

Models/Helper/CompressionHelper.cs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 using System.IO.Compression;
+using System.Text;
 
 namespace Models.Helper;
 
@@ -19,4 +20,31 @@ public static class CompressionHelper
         using GZipStream decompressor = new(compressedFileStream, CompressionMode.Decompress);
         decompressor.CopyTo(decompressedFileStream);
     }
+    
+    public static string CompressString(string text)
+    {
+        byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(text);
+        
+        using MemoryStream memoryStream = new();
+        
+        using (BrotliStream compressionStream = new(memoryStream, CompressionLevel.SmallestSize))
+        {
+            compressionStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
+        }
+        
+        return Convert.ToBase64String(memoryStream.ToArray());
+    }
+    
+    public static string DecompressString(string compressedText)
+    {
+        byte[] byteArray = Convert.FromBase64String(compressedText);
+        
+        using MemoryStream memoryStream = new(byteArray);
+        
+        using BrotliStream decompressionStream = new(memoryStream, CompressionMode.Decompress);
+        
+        using StreamReader reader = new(decompressionStream);
+        
+        return reader.ReadToEnd();
+    }
 }