diff --git a/cmd/zap/cmd/docvalue.go b/cmd/zap/cmd/docvalue.go
index 86cf427..0d5bc87 100644
--- a/cmd/zap/cmd/docvalue.go
+++ b/cmd/zap/cmd/docvalue.go
@@ -18,13 +18,11 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"encoding/binary"
 	"fmt"
-	"log"
 	"math"
 	"sort"
 	"strconv"
 
 	zap "github.com/blevesearch/zapx/v16"
-	"github.com/golang/snappy"
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 )
 
@@ -162,11 +160,7 @@ func dumpDocValueResults(data []byte, args []string, field string, id int, field
 		return nil
 	}
 	// uncompress the already loaded data
-	uncompressed, err := snappy.Decode(nil, curChunkData)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("snappy err %+v ", err)
-		return err
-	}
+	uncompressed := curChunkData
 
 	var termSeparator byte = 0xff
 	var termSeparatorSplitSlice = []byte{termSeparator}
diff --git a/cmd/zap/cmd/stored.go b/cmd/zap/cmd/stored.go
index 5a32d08..c723325 100644
--- a/cmd/zap/cmd/stored.go
+++ b/cmd/zap/cmd/stored.go
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strconv"
 
-	"github.com/golang/snappy"
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
 )
 
@@ -63,10 +62,7 @@ var storedCmd = &cobra.Command{
 		idFieldValLen, _ := binary.Uvarint(meta)
 		fmt.Printf("Raw _id (len %d): % x\n", idFieldValLen, raw[:idFieldValLen])
 		fmt.Printf("Raw fields (len %d): % x\n", dataLen-idFieldValLen, raw[idFieldValLen:])
-		uncompressed, err := snappy.Decode(nil, raw[idFieldValLen:])
-		if err != nil {
-			panic(err)
-		}
+		uncompressed := raw[idFieldValLen:]
 		fmt.Printf("Uncompressed fields (len %d): % x\n", len(uncompressed), uncompressed)
 
 		return nil
diff --git a/contentcoder.go b/contentcoder.go
index 3343d31..f906306 100644
--- a/contentcoder.go
+++ b/contentcoder.go
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ import (
 	"encoding/binary"
 	"io"
 	"reflect"
-
-	"github.com/golang/snappy"
 )
 
 var reflectStaticSizeMetaData int
@@ -139,7 +137,7 @@ func (c *chunkedContentCoder) flushContents() error {
 	metaData := c.chunkMetaBuf.Bytes()
 	c.final = append(c.final, c.chunkMetaBuf.Bytes()...)
 	// write the compressed data to the final data
-	c.compressed = snappy.Encode(c.compressed[:cap(c.compressed)], c.chunkBuf.Bytes())
+	c.compressed = c.chunkBuf.Bytes()
 	c.incrementBytesWritten(uint64(len(c.compressed)))
 	c.final = append(c.final, c.compressed...)
 
diff --git a/docvalues.go b/docvalues.go
index 3d0d269..119455c 100644
--- a/docvalues.go
+++ b/docvalues.go
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import (
 
 	index "github.com/blevesearch/bleve_index_api"
 	segment "github.com/blevesearch/scorch_segment_api/v2"
-	"github.com/golang/snappy"
 )
 
 var reflectStaticSizedocValueReader int
@@ -217,10 +216,7 @@ func (di *docValueReader) iterateAllDocValues(s *SegmentBase, visitor docNumTerm
 		}
 
 		// uncompress the already loaded data
-		uncompressed, err := snappy.Decode(di.uncompressed[:cap(di.uncompressed)], di.curChunkData)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
+		uncompressed := di.curChunkData
 		di.uncompressed = uncompressed
 
 		start := uint64(0)
@@ -246,16 +242,12 @@ func (di *docValueReader) visitDocValues(docNum uint64,
 	}
 
 	var uncompressed []byte
-	var err error
 	// use the uncompressed copy if available
 	if len(di.uncompressed) > 0 {
 		uncompressed = di.uncompressed
 	} else {
 		// uncompress the already loaded data
-		uncompressed, err = snappy.Decode(di.uncompressed[:cap(di.uncompressed)], di.curChunkData)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
+		uncompressed = di.curChunkData
 		di.uncompressed = uncompressed
 	}
 
diff --git a/merge.go b/merge.go
index 479f10b..4c60c2b 100644
--- a/merge.go
+++ b/merge.go
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/RoaringBitmap/roaring/v2"
 	seg "github.com/blevesearch/scorch_segment_api/v2"
-	"github.com/golang/snappy"
 )
 
 var DefaultFileMergerBufferSize = 1024 * 1024
@@ -486,7 +485,7 @@ func mergeStoredAndRemap(segments []*SegmentBase, drops []*roaring.Bitmap,
 
 			metaBytes := metaBuf.Bytes()
 
-			compressed = snappy.Encode(compressed[:cap(compressed)], data)
+			compressed = data
 
 			// record where we're about to start writing
 			docNumOffsets[newDocNum] = uint64(w.Count())
diff --git a/new.go b/new.go
index c99b933..c335fd9 100644
--- a/new.go
+++ b/new.go
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import (
 
 	index "github.com/blevesearch/bleve_index_api"
 	segment "github.com/blevesearch/scorch_segment_api/v2"
-	"github.com/golang/snappy"
 )
 
 var NewSegmentBufferNumResultsBump int = 100
@@ -372,7 +371,7 @@ func (s *interim) writeStoredFields() (
 
 		metaBytes := s.metaBuf.Bytes()
 
-		compressed = snappy.Encode(compressed[:cap(compressed)], data)
+		compressed = data
 		s.incrementBytesWritten(uint64(len(compressed)))
 		docStoredOffsets[docNum] = uint64(s.w.Count())
 
diff --git a/segment.go b/segment.go
index 19aebe3..6fd0e3a 100644
--- a/segment.go
+++ b/segment.go
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ import (
 	mmap "github.com/blevesearch/mmap-go"
 	segment "github.com/blevesearch/scorch_segment_api/v2"
 	"github.com/blevesearch/vellum"
-	"github.com/golang/snappy"
 )
 
 var reflectStaticSizeSegmentBase int
@@ -567,10 +566,7 @@ func (s *SegmentBase) visitStoredFields(vdc *visitDocumentCtx, num uint64,
 		// handle non-"_id" fields
 		compressed = compressed[idFieldValLen:]
 
-		uncompressed, err := snappy.Decode(vdc.buf[:cap(vdc.buf)], compressed)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
+		uncompressed := compressed
 
 		for keepGoing {
 			field, err := binary.ReadUvarint(&vdc.reader)