Embodiments of the present invention include a compression system including one or more compressibility inputs; a compression predictor configured to predict the compressibility of data based on the one or more compressibility inputs; a compressor configured to compress the data; and one or more compression inputs. At least one of the compression predictor or the compressor is configured to determine how to compress the data based on the one or more compression inputs. The one or more compressibility inputs comprise at least one of an object extension dictionary, an object signature dictionary, and an entropy estimation algorithm library. The one or more compression inputs comprise at least one of a quality of service profile, a device performance profile and a compression algorithm performance chart.