Technologies are presented that optimize data processing cost and efficiency. A computing system may comprise at least one processing element; a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processing element; at least one compressor-decompressor communicatively coupled to the at least one processing element, and communicatively coupled to the memory through a memory interface; and a cache fabric comprising a plurality of distributed cache banks communicatively coupled to each other, to the at least one processing element, and to the at least one compressor-decompressor via a plurality of nodes. In this system, the at least one compressor-decompressor and the cache fabric are configured to manage and track uncompressed data of variable length for data requests by the processing element(s), allowing usage of compressed data in the memory.