diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web/PublishedCache/NuCache/DataSource/IContentNestedDataSerializer.cs b/src/Umbraco.Web/PublishedCache/NuCache/DataSource/IContentNestedDataSerializer.cs
index 32eb388bee..8b1b3e1496 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web/PublishedCache/NuCache/DataSource/IContentNestedDataSerializer.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web/PublishedCache/NuCache/DataSource/IContentNestedDataSerializer.cs
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     /// <summary>
     /// Serializes/Deserializes <see cref="ContentNestedData"/> document to the SQL Database as bytes
     /// </summary>
-    public interface IContentNestedDataByteSerializer : IContentNestedDataSerializer
+    public interface IContentNestedDataByteSerializer
     {
         ContentNestedData DeserializeBytes(byte[] data);
         byte[] SerializeBytes(ContentNestedData nestedData);
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web/PublishedCache/NuCache/DataSource/Lz4DictionaryOfPropertyDataSerializer.cs b/src/Umbraco.Web/PublishedCache/NuCache/DataSource/Lz4DictionaryOfPropertyDataSerializer.cs
index 31f7763e04..d71f0e2184 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web/PublishedCache/NuCache/DataSource/Lz4DictionaryOfPropertyDataSerializer.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web/PublishedCache/NuCache/DataSource/Lz4DictionaryOfPropertyDataSerializer.cs
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ namespace Umbraco.Web.PublishedCache.NuCache.DataSource
 
                     switch (map.CompressLevel)
                     {                        
-                        case NucachePropertyCompressionLevel.SQLDatabase:
                         case NucachePropertyCompressionLevel.NuCacheDatabase:
                             if (!(pdata.Value is null) && pdata.Value is byte[] byteArrayValue)
                             {
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web/PublishedCache/NuCache/DataSource/MsgPackContentNestedDataSerializer.cs b/src/Umbraco.Web/PublishedCache/NuCache/DataSource/MsgPackContentNestedDataSerializer.cs
index 206051f839..33181ebd5e 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web/PublishedCache/NuCache/DataSource/MsgPackContentNestedDataSerializer.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web/PublishedCache/NuCache/DataSource/MsgPackContentNestedDataSerializer.cs
@@ -1,23 +1,17 @@
-using K4os.Compression.LZ4;
-using MessagePack;
-using MessagePack.Formatters;
+using MessagePack;
 using MessagePack.Resolvers;
 using System;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-using System.Linq;
-using System.Text;
 
 namespace Umbraco.Web.PublishedCache.NuCache.DataSource
 {
     /// <summary>
     /// Serializes/Deserializes <see cref="ContentNestedData"/> document to the SQL Database as bytes using MessagePack
     /// </summary>
-    internal class MsgPackContentNestedDataSerializer : IContentNestedDataByteSerializer
+    internal class MsgPackContentNestedDataSerializer : IContentNestedDataByteSerializer, IContentNestedDataSerializer
     {
-        private MessagePackSerializerOptions _options;
-        private readonly NuCachePropertyOptions _propertyOptions;
+        private readonly MessagePackSerializerOptions _options;
 
-        public MsgPackContentNestedDataSerializer(INuCachePropertyOptionsFactory propertyOptionsFactory = null)
+        public MsgPackContentNestedDataSerializer()
         {
             var defaultOptions = ContractlessStandardResolver.Options;
 
@@ -37,7 +31,6 @@ namespace Umbraco.Web.PublishedCache.NuCache.DataSource
             _options = defaultOptions
                 .WithResolver(resolver)
                 .WithCompression(MessagePackCompression.Lz4BlockArray);
-            _propertyOptions = propertyOptionsFactory?.GetNuCachePropertyOptions() ?? new NuCachePropertyOptions();
         }
 
         public string ToJson(string serialized)
@@ -56,45 +49,10 @@ namespace Umbraco.Web.PublishedCache.NuCache.DataSource
 
         public string Serialize(ContentNestedData nestedData)
         {
-            Optimize(nestedData);
-
             var bin = MessagePackSerializer.Serialize(nestedData, _options);
             return Convert.ToBase64String(bin);
         }
 
-        /// <summary>
-        /// Compress properties and map property names to shorter names
-        /// </summary>
-        /// <param name="nestedData"></param>
-        private void Optimize(ContentNestedData nestedData)
-        {
-            if (_propertyOptions.PropertyMap != null && _propertyOptions.PropertyMap.Count > 0)
-            {
-                foreach (var map in _propertyOptions.PropertyMap)
-                {
-                    if (map.Value.CompressLevel.Equals(NucachePropertyCompressionLevel.SQLDatabase))
-                    {
-                        if (nestedData.PropertyData.TryGetValue(map.Key, out PropertyData[] properties))
-                        {
-                            foreach (var property in properties.Where(x => x.Value != null && x.Value is string))
-                            {
-                                property.Value = LZ4Pickler.Pickle(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(property.Value as string), _propertyOptions.LZ4CompressionLevel);
-                            }
-                        }
-                    }
-
-                    // if there is an alias map for this property then use that instead of the real property alias
-                    // (used to save memory, the mapped alias is normally a single char or at least a smaller string)
-                    if (map.Value.MappedAlias != null && !map.Key.Equals(map.Value.MappedAlias)
-                        && nestedData.PropertyData.Remove(map.Key)
-                        && nestedData.PropertyData.TryGetValue(map.Key, out PropertyData[] properties2))
-                    {
-                        nestedData.PropertyData.Add(map.Value.MappedAlias, properties2);
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
         public ContentNestedData DeserializeBytes(byte[] data) => MessagePackSerializer.Deserialize<ContentNestedData>(data, _options);
 
         public byte[] SerializeBytes(ContentNestedData nestedData) => MessagePackSerializer.Serialize(nestedData, _options);
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web/PublishedCache/NuCache/DataSource/NucachePropertyCompressionLevel.cs b/src/Umbraco.Web/PublishedCache/NuCache/DataSource/NucachePropertyCompressionLevel.cs
index 2f24a203ca..8a82dcb888 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web/PublishedCache/NuCache/DataSource/NucachePropertyCompressionLevel.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web/PublishedCache/NuCache/DataSource/NucachePropertyCompressionLevel.cs
@@ -7,14 +7,6 @@
     {
         None = 0,
 
-        /// <summary>
-        /// Compress property data at the nucache SQL DB table level
-        /// </summary>
-        /// <remarks>
-        /// Only necessary if the document in the nucache SQL DB table isn't stored as compressed bytes
-        /// </remarks>
-        SQLDatabase = 1,
-
         /// <summary>
         /// Compress property data at the nucache BTree level
         /// </summary>