zlib VS zstd

Compare zlib vs zstd and see what are their differences.

zlib

Cloudflare fork of zlib with massive performance improvements (by cloudflare)

zstd

Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm (by facebook)
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zlib zstd
3 106
635 22,407
0.2% 2.4%
6.6 9.7
19 days ago 5 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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zlib

Posts with mentions or reviews of zlib. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-14.

zstd

Posts with mentions or reviews of zstd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-26.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing zlib and zstd you can also consider the following projects:

libdeflate - Heavily optimized library for DEFLATE/zlib/gzip compression and decompression

LZ4 - Extremely Fast Compression algorithm

zlib-ng - zlib replacement with optimizations for "next generation" systems.

Snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor

ZLib - A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.

LZMA - (Unofficial) Git mirror of LZMA SDK releases

zlib

7-Zip-zstd - 7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard

aws-graviton-getting-started - Helping developers to use AWS Graviton2 and Graviton3 processors which power the 6th and 7th generation of Amazon EC2 instances (C6g[d], M6g[d], R6g[d], T4g, X2gd, C6gn, I4g, Im4gn, Is4gen, G5g, C7g[d][n], M7g[d], R7g[d]).

brotli - Brotli compression format

haproxy - HAProxy Load Balancer's development branch (mirror of git.haproxy.org)