A data service implements a configurable data compressor/decompressor using a recipe generated for a particular data set type and using compression operators of a common registry (e.g., pantry) that are referenced by the recipe, wherein the recipe indicates at which nodes of a compression graph respective ones of the compression operators of the registry are to be implemented. The configurable data compressor/decompressor provides a customizable framework for compressing data sets of different types (e.g., belonging to different data domains) using a common compressor/decompressor implemented using a common set of compression operators.