diff --git a/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/io/stream/OutputStreamStreamOutput.java b/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/io/stream/OutputStreamStreamOutput.java
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+++ b/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/io/stream/OutputStreamStreamOutput.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to ElasticSearch and Shay Banon under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. ElasticSearch licenses this
+ * file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+
+/**
+ */
+public class OutputStreamStreamOutput extends StreamOutput {
+
+    private final OutputStream out;
+
+    public OutputStreamStreamOutput(OutputStream out) {
+        this.out = out;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void writeByte(byte b) throws IOException {
+        out.write(b);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void writeBytes(byte[] b, int offset, int length) throws IOException {
+        out.write(b, offset, length);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void flush() throws IOException {
+        out.flush();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void close() throws IOException {
+        out.close();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void reset() throws IOException {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/benchmark/compress/PureCompressionBenchmark.java b/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/benchmark/compress/PureCompressionBenchmark.java
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+++ b/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/benchmark/compress/PureCompressionBenchmark.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to ElasticSearch and Shay Banon under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. ElasticSearch licenses this
+ * file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.elasticsearch.benchmark.compress;
+
+import org.elasticsearch.common.compress.Compressor;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.compress.CompressorFactory;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.io.FileSystemUtils;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.OutputStreamStreamOutput;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.unit.ByteSizeValue;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentFactory;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+
+/**
+ */
+public class PureCompressionBenchmark {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+
+        final long MAX_SIZE = ByteSizeValue.parseBytesSizeValue("50mb").bytes();
+
+        File testFile = new File("target/test/compress/pure");
+        FileSystemUtils.deleteRecursively(testFile);
+        testFile.mkdirs();
+
+        FileOutputStream rawJson = new FileOutputStream(new File(testFile, "raw_json"));
+        FileOutputStream rawSmile = new FileOutputStream(new File(testFile, "raw_smile"));
+
+        FileOutputStream compressedByDocJson = new FileOutputStream(new File(testFile, "compressed_by_doc_json"));
+        FileOutputStream compressedByDocSmile = new FileOutputStream(new File(testFile, "compressed_by_doc_smile"));
+
+        Compressor compressor = CompressorFactory.defaultCompressor();
+
+        StreamOutput compressedJson = compressor.streamOutput(new OutputStreamStreamOutput(new FileOutputStream(new File(testFile, "compressed_json"))));
+        StreamOutput compressedSmile = compressor.streamOutput(new OutputStreamStreamOutput(new FileOutputStream(new File(testFile, "compressed_smile"))));
+
+        TestData testData = new TestData();
+        while (testData.next() && testData.getTotalSize() < MAX_SIZE) {
+            {
+                // json
+                XContentBuilder builder = XContentFactory.jsonBuilder();
+                testData.current(builder);
+
+                rawJson.write(builder.underlyingBytes(), 0, builder.underlyingBytesLength());
+                compressedJson.write(builder.underlyingBytes(), 0, builder.underlyingBytesLength());
+
+                byte[] compressed = compressor.compress(builder.underlyingBytes(), 0, builder.underlyingBytesLength());
+                compressedByDocJson.write(compressed);
+                builder.close();
+            }
+
+            {
+                // smile
+                XContentBuilder builder = XContentFactory.smileBuilder();
+                testData.current(builder);
+
+                rawSmile.write(builder.underlyingBytes(), 0, builder.underlyingBytesLength());
+                compressedSmile.write(builder.underlyingBytes(), 0, builder.underlyingBytesLength());
+
+                byte[] compressed = compressor.compress(builder.underlyingBytes(), 0, builder.underlyingBytesLength());
+                compressedByDocSmile.write(compressed);
+                builder.close();
+            }
+        }
+
+        rawJson.close();
+        rawSmile.close();
+        compressedJson.close();
+        compressedSmile.close();
+        compressedByDocJson.close();
+        compressedByDocSmile.close();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/benchmark/compress/TestData.java b/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/benchmark/compress/TestData.java
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+/*
+ * Licensed to ElasticSearch and Shay Banon under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. ElasticSearch licenses this
+ * file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.elasticsearch.benchmark.compress;
+
+import org.elasticsearch.common.compress.bzip2.CBZip2InputStream;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
+
+import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.Date;
+
+/**
+ */
+public class TestData {
+
+    private BufferedReader reader;
+
+    private String line;
+    private String id;
+    private String type;
+    private String text;
+
+    private long totalSize;
+
+    public TestData() throws IOException {
+        URL url = new URL("http://downloads.dbpedia.org/3.0/en/longabstract_en.nt.bz2");
+        BufferedInputStream stream = new BufferedInputStream(url.openStream());
+        // read two bytes for the header...
+        stream.read();
+        stream.read();
+        reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new CBZip2InputStream(stream)));
+    }
+
+    public long getTotalSize() {
+        return totalSize;
+    }
+
+    public boolean next() throws Exception {
+        line = reader.readLine();
+        if (line == null) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        totalSize += line.length();
+        int endId = line.indexOf(' ');
+        id = line.substring(0, endId);
+        int endType = line.indexOf(' ', endId + 1);
+        type = line.substring(endId + 1, endType);
+        text = line.substring(endType + 1);
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     */
+    public XContentBuilder current(XContentBuilder builder) throws Exception {
+        builder.startObject();
+        builder.field("id", id);
+        builder.field("type", type);
+        builder.field("text", text);
+        builder.field("time", new Date());
+        builder.endObject();
+        return builder;
+    }
+}