I compressed a 3,853,508,608-byte SQLite3 file using ouch 0.2.0 and pkzip on macOS 11.6. The resulting zip ouch produced was 611,722,010 bytes which was 1,729,697 bytes smaller than Info-ZIP's version but it took 95.43 seconds while pkzip took 75.50 seconds.
Perhaps it's worth matching the default settings so the compression time is within range of Info-ZIP. Also, exposing compression options would be great as well.