Alpha exposes the option --badger.compression_level to configure the compression
level for data on disk using Zstd compression. The option can be set as
dgraph alpha --badger.compression_level=xxx
A higher compression level is more CPU intensive but offers a better compression ratio. The default level is 3.
This option is available in v20.03.1 and later.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://dgraph.io/docs/deploy/data-compression/