lizard
Lizard (formerly LZ5) is an efficient compressor with very fast decompression. It achieves compression ratio that is comparable to zip/zlib and zstd/brotli (at low and medium compression levels) at decompression speed of 1000 MB/s and faster. (by inikep)
smaz
Small strings compression library (by antirez)
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lizard | smaz | |
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4 | 3 | |
633 | 1,131 | |
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0.0 | 0.0 | |
about 3 years ago | over 4 years ago | |
C | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
lizard
Posts with mentions or reviews of lizard.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-24.
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ELI5 how archiving on computers work
Another fun trick is to compress less often used stuff in RAM memory, because decompressing something like LZ4 or Lizard is still potentially orders of magnitude faster than reading from disk.
- Lizard – efficient compression with fast decompression
- Lizard
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C Deep
Lizard - Formerly LZ5; an efficient compressor with fast decompression. Achieves compression ratios comparable with zip and zlib at decompression speeds of 1000MB/s and faster. BSD-2-Clause
smaz
Posts with mentions or reviews of smaz.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-13.
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Advanced MessagePack capabilities
Choose the data compression algorithm based on the specifics of your data. For example, if you are working with lots of short strings, take a look at [*SMAZ](https://github.com/antirez/smaz).*
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Improving short string compression.
Take a look at this. Idea behind it seems nice, but it's fixed dictionary ("codebook") was clearly made for English language, and the algorithm itself is really simple. How can we impove on this? Dynamic dictionary won't do, since you have to store it somewhere, nullifying benefits of using such algorithm. Beyond that I have no idea.
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C Deep
smaz - Efficient string compression library. BSD-3-Clause
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lizard and smaz you can also consider the following projects:
ZLib - A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.
LZMAT - git mirror of LZMAT (http://www.matcode.com/lzmat.htm)
python-zstandard - Python bindings to the Zstandard (zstd) compression library
Snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor
libuv - Cross-platform asynchronous I/O
doboz
lzbench - lzbench is an in-memory benchmark of open-source LZ77/LZSS/LZMA compressors
zstd - Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
c-blosc - A blocking, shuffling and loss-less compression library that can be faster than `memcpy()`.
qemu
LZHAM - Lossless data compression codec with LZMA-like ratios but 1.5x-8x faster decompression speed, C/C++