The Dysco compression technique is explained in the article "Compression of interferometric radio-astronomical data", A. R. Offringa (2016; http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02019). If you use this software, please cite the paper.
A compressing storage manager for Casacore mearement sets
To install:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
make -j 4
make install
To be able to open compressed measurement sets, the dysco library ("libdyscostman.so") must be in your path.
The Dysco compression technique is explained in the article. Further documentation for the storage manager, including documentation of the dscompress tool: