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index 44a3024..8ddda83 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
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diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 9ee6be8..ea772f0 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,5 +9,6 @@ crate-type = ["cdylib"]
 
 [dependencies]
 pyo3 = { version = "0.7", features = ["extension-module"] }
-n5 = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["filesystem", "gzip", "use_ndarray"]}
+n5 = { version = "0.4", default-features = false, features = ["filesystem", "bzip", "gzip", "lz", "xz", "use_ndarray"]}
 numpy = "0.6"
+serde_json = "1.0.39"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index c815a4c..193e455 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ fn create_dataset(
     dimensions: Vec<i64>,
     block_size: Vec<i32>,
     dtype: &str,
+    compression: Option<&str>,
 ) -> PyResult<()> {
     let dtype = match dtype {
         "UINT8" => DataType::UINT8,
@@ -45,11 +46,23 @@ fn create_dataset(
 
     let n = N5Filesystem::open_or_create(root_path)?;
     if !n.exists(path_name) {
+        let compression_type: CompressionType = match compression {
+            None => CompressionType::new::<compression::gzip::GzipCompression>(),
+            Some(s) => {
+                match serde_json::from_str(s) {
+                    Ok(c) => c,
+                    Err(_e) => return Err(
+                        exceptions::ValueError::py_err("Could not deserialize compression")
+                    )
+                }
+            }
+        };
+
         let data_attrs = DatasetAttributes::new(
             dimensions.into(),
             block_size.into(),
             dtype,
-            CompressionType::new::<compression::gzip::GzipCompression>(),
+            compression_type,
         );
         n.create_dataset(path_name, &data_attrs)?;
         Ok(())
diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index 16bbfe6..056fd3f 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -19,3 +19,13 @@ def ds_dtype(request, tmp_path):
 
     pyn5.create_dataset(n5_path, ds_name, DS_SIZE, BLOCKSIZE, dtype)
     yield pyn5.open(n5_path, ds_name, dtype, False), np.dtype(dtype.lower())
+
+@pytest.fixture(params=[
+    {"type": "raw"},
+    {"type": "bzip2", "blockSize": 5},
+    {"type": "gzip", "level": 5},
+    {"type": "lz4", "blockSize": 32768},
+    {"type": "xz", "preset": 3},
+], ids=lambda d: d.get("type", "raw"))
+def compression_dict(request):
+    yield request.param
diff --git a/tests/test_pyn5.py b/tests/test_pyn5.py
index f85a32f..3ccc81d 100644
--- a/tests/test_pyn5.py
+++ b/tests/test_pyn5.py
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 import unittest
 from pathlib import Path
 import shutil
+import json
+
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 
@@ -94,6 +96,43 @@ def test_read_write_wrong_dtype(ds_dtype):
     np.testing.assert_equal(ds.read_ndarray([4, 4, 4], BLOCKSIZE), np.zeros(BLOCKSIZE))
 
 
+def test_compression(tmp_path, compression_dict):
+    root = tmp_path / "test.n5"
+
+    data = np.arange(100, dtype=np.uint8).reshape((10, 10))
+
+    pyn5.create_dataset(
+        str(root), "ds", data.shape, (5, 5), data.dtype.name.upper(),
+        json.dumps(compression_dict)
+    )
+
+    with open(root / "ds" / "attributes.json") as f:
+        attrs = json.load(f)
+
+    assert attrs["compression"] == compression_dict
+
+    ds = pyn5.DatasetUINT8(str(root), "ds", True)
+    ds.write_ndarray((0, 0), data, 0)
+
+
+def test_default_compression(tmp_path):
+    root = tmp_path / "test.n5"
+
+    data = np.arange(100, dtype=np.uint8).reshape((10, 10))
+
+    pyn5.create_dataset(
+        str(root), "ds", data.shape, (5, 5), data.dtype.name.upper(),
+    )
+
+    with open(root / "ds" / "attributes.json") as f:
+        attrs = json.load(f)
+
+    assert attrs["compression"] == {"type": "gzip", "level": -1}
+
+    ds = pyn5.DatasetUINT8(str(root), "ds", True)
+    ds.write_ndarray((0, 0), data, 0)
+
+
 class TestPythonReadWrite(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         self.root = "test.n5"