Data Compression - AshokBhat/notes GitHub Wiki

About

• Compression and Decompression Software Libraries.

Key software

zlib

• Popular
• Not actively maintained
• Forks - Forks by Intel, CloudFlare and zlib-ng.
• ZLIB License.

gzip

• GPLv-3 License

zstd

• https://github.com/facebook/zstd
• By Facebook
• BSD License
• Better compression than LZ4 but slower.

Snappy

• By Google
• https://github.com/google/snappy
• BSD-type license

LZ4

• https://github.com/lz4/lz4
• BSD 2-Clause license

See also