diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index fa6c8f44..656fbe3a 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 # It is not intended for manual editing.
 version = 3
 
+[[package]]
+name = "adler"
+version = "1.0.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f26201604c87b1e01bd3d98f8d5d9a8fcbb815e8cedb41ffccbeb4bf593a35fe"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ahash"
 version = "0.7.6"
@@ -240,6 +246,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "crc32fast"
+version = "1.3.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b540bd8bc810d3885c6ea91e2018302f68baba2129ab3e88f32389ee9370880d"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "criterion"
 version = "0.3.5"
@@ -380,6 +395,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "termcolor",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "flate2"
+version = "1.0.22"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1e6988e897c1c9c485f43b47a529cef42fde0547f9d8d41a7062518f1d8fc53f"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "crc32fast",
+ "libc",
+ "miniz_oxide",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "form_urlencoded"
 version = "1.0.1"
@@ -675,6 +702,16 @@ version = "0.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "68354c5c6bd36d73ff3feceb05efa59b6acb7626617f4962be322a825e61f79a"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "miniz_oxide"
+version = "0.4.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a92518e98c078586bc6c934028adcca4c92a53d6a958196de835170a01d84e4b"
+dependencies = [
+ "adler",
+ "autocfg",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "nom"
 version = "7.1.0"
@@ -804,6 +841,7 @@ name = "oxigraph_server"
 version = "0.3.0-beta.4"
 dependencies = [
  "clap 3.0.14",
+ "flate2",
  "oxhttp",
  "oxigraph",
  "oxiri",
diff --git a/server/Cargo.toml b/server/Cargo.toml
index 6cb0f5e2..0d42b824 100644
--- a/server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/server/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,3 +19,4 @@ sparesults = { version = "0.1.0-beta.4", path = "../lib/sparesults", features =
 rand = "0.8"
 url = "2"
 oxiri = "0.2"
+flate2 = "1"
diff --git a/server/src/main.rs b/server/src/main.rs
index bb01e144..db728038 100644
--- a/server/src/main.rs
+++ b/server/src/main.rs
@@ -10,12 +10,13 @@
 )]
 
 use clap::{Parser, Subcommand};
+use flate2::read::MultiGzDecoder;
 use oxhttp::model::{Body, HeaderName, HeaderValue, Request, Response, Status};
 use oxhttp::Server;
 use oxigraph::io::{DatasetFormat, DatasetSerializer, GraphFormat, GraphSerializer};
 use oxigraph::model::{GraphName, GraphNameRef, IriParseError, NamedNode, NamedOrBlankNode};
 use oxigraph::sparql::{Query, QueryResults, Update};
-use oxigraph::store::Store;
+use oxigraph::store::{BulkLoader, Store};
 use oxiri::Iri;
 use rand::random;
 use sparesults::{QueryResultsFormat, QueryResultsSerializer};
@@ -76,35 +77,36 @@ pub fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
 
     match matches.command {
         Command::Load { file } => {
-            let handles = file.iter().map(|file| {
-                let store = store.clone();
-                let file = file.to_string();
-                spawn(move || {
-                    let f = file.clone();
-                    let start = Instant::now();
-                    let loader = store.bulk_loader().on_progress(move |size| {
-                        let elapsed = start.elapsed();
-                        println!("{} triples loaded in {}s ({} t/s) from {}", size, elapsed.as_secs(), size / elapsed.as_secs(), f)
-                    });
-                    let reader = BufReader::new(File::open(&file)?);
-                    if let Some(format) = file
-                        .rsplit_once('.')
-                        .and_then(|(_, extension)| DatasetFormat::from_extension(extension)) {
-                        loader.load_dataset(reader, format, None)?;
-                        Ok(())
-                    } else if let Some(format) = file
-                        .rsplit_once('.')
-                        .and_then(|(_, extension)| GraphFormat::from_extension(extension)) {
-                        loader.load_graph(reader, format, GraphNameRef::DefaultGraph, None)?;
-                        Ok(())
-                    } else {
-                        Err(io::Error::new(
-                            ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
-                            "The server is not able to guess the file format of {} from its extension",
-                        ))
-                    }
+            let handles = file
+                .iter()
+                .map(|file| {
+                    let store = store.clone();
+                    let file = file.to_string();
+                    spawn(move || {
+                        let f = file.clone();
+                        let start = Instant::now();
+                        let loader = store.bulk_loader().on_progress(move |size| {
+                            let elapsed = start.elapsed();
+                            println!(
+                                "{} triples loaded in {}s ({} t/s) from {}",
+                                size,
+                                elapsed.as_secs(),
+                                size / elapsed.as_secs(),
+                                f
+                            )
+                        });
+                        if file.ends_with(".gz") {
+                            bulk_load(
+                                loader,
+                                &file[..file.len() - 3],
+                                MultiGzDecoder::new(File::open(&file)?),
+                            )
+                        } else {
+                            bulk_load(loader, &file, File::open(&file)?)
+                        }
+                    })
                 })
-            }).collect::<Vec<JoinHandle<io::Result<()>>>>();
+                .collect::<Vec<JoinHandle<io::Result<()>>>>();
             for handle in handles {
                 handle.join().unwrap()?;
             }
@@ -124,6 +126,28 @@ pub fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
     }
 }
 
+fn bulk_load(loader: BulkLoader, file: &str, reader: impl Read) -> io::Result<()> {
+    let (_, extension) = file.rsplit_once('.').ok_or_else(|| io::Error::new(
+        ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
+        format!("The server is not able to guess the file format of {} because the file name as no extension", file)))?;
+    let reader = BufReader::new(reader);
+    if let Some(format) = DatasetFormat::from_extension(extension) {
+        loader.load_dataset(reader, format, None)?;
+        Ok(())
+    } else if let Some(format) = GraphFormat::from_extension(extension) {
+        loader.load_graph(reader, format, GraphNameRef::DefaultGraph, None)?;
+        Ok(())
+    } else {
+        Err(io::Error::new(
+            ErrorKind::InvalidInput,
+            format!(
+                "The server is not able to guess the file format from the extension {}",
+                extension
+            ),
+        ))
+    }
+}
+
 fn handle_request(request: &mut Request, store: Store) -> Response {
     match (request.url().path(), request.method().as_ref()) {
         ("/", "HEAD") => Response::builder(Status::OK)