diff --git a/rebar.config b/rebar.config
index cef4c325..0941f30a 100644
--- a/rebar.config
+++ b/rebar.config
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 {port_specs, [{"priv/bitcask.so", ["c_src/*.c"]}]}.
 
 {deps, [
-        {meck, "0.8.1", {git, "git://github.com/basho/meck.git", {tag, "0.8.1"}}}
+        {meck, "0.8.1", {git, "git://github.com/basho/meck.git", {tag, "0.8.1"}}},
+        {snappy, ".*", {git, "git://github.com/basho/snappy-erlang-nif.git", "master"}}
        ]}.
 
 {port_env, [
diff --git a/src/bitcask.erl b/src/bitcask.erl
index 4243e315..165fe661 100644
--- a/src/bitcask.erl
+++ b/src/bitcask.erl
@@ -217,7 +217,8 @@ get(Ref, Key, TryNum) ->
                                 {ok, _Key, ?TOMBSTONE} ->
                                     not_found;
                                 {ok, _Key, Value} ->
-                                    {ok, Value};
+                                    Val = maybe_decompress(Value),
+                                    {ok, Val};
                                 {error, eof} ->
                                     not_found;
                                 {error, _} = Err ->
@@ -1222,9 +1223,11 @@ do_put(Key, Value, #bc_state{write_file = WriteFile} = State, Retries, _LastErr)
     end,
 
     Tstamp = bitcask_time:tstamp(),
+
+    CValue = maybe_compress(Value, State#bc_state.opts),
     {ok, WriteFile2, Offset, Size} = bitcask_fileops:write(
                                        State2#bc_state.write_file,
-                                       Key, Value, Tstamp),
+                                       Key, CValue, Tstamp),
     case bitcask_nifs:keydir_put(State2#bc_state.keydir, Key,
                                  bitcask_fileops:file_tstamp(WriteFile2),
                                  Size, Offset, Tstamp, true) of
@@ -1333,6 +1336,68 @@ expiry_merge([File | Files], LiveKeyDir, Acc0) ->
      end,
     expiry_merge(Files, LiveKeyDir, Acc).
 
+enable_compression(Opts) -> 
+    case get_opt(enable_compression, Opts) of
+        true ->
+            true;
+        _ ->
+            false
+    end.
+
+compression_ratio_threshold(Opts) -> 
+    case get_opt(compression_ratio_threshold, Opts) of
+        T when is_float(T) ->
+            T;
+        _ ->
+            1.0
+    end.
+
+compression_size_threshold(Opts) -> 
+    case get_opt(compression_size_threshold, Opts) of
+        T when is_integer(T) ->
+            T;
+        _ ->
+            1024
+    end.
+
+check_compression_threshold(Value, Compressed, Opts) ->
+    ValueSize = byte_size(Value),
+    SizeThreshold = compression_size_threshold(Opts),
+    case ValueSize > SizeThreshold of
+        true ->
+            RatioThreshold = compression_ratio_threshold(Opts),
+            case (byte_size(Compressed) / byte_size(Value)) of
+                Ratio when Ratio < RatioThreshold ->
+                    Compressed;
+                _ ->
+                    Value
+            end;
+        _ ->
+            Value
+    end.
+
+maybe_compress(Value, Opts) ->
+    case enable_compression(Opts) of
+        true ->
+            case snappy:compress(Value) of
+                {ok, Compressed} ->
+                    check_compression_threshold(Value, Compressed, Opts);
+                _ ->
+                    Value
+            end;
+        false ->
+            Value
+    end.
+
+maybe_decompress(Value) ->
+    case snappy:is_valid(Value) of
+        true ->
+            {ok, Val} = snappy:decompress(Value),
+            Val;
+        _ ->
+            Value
+    end.
+
 %% ===================================================================
 %% EUnit tests
 %% ===================================================================