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 | 1,110 | |
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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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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
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- Lizard – efficient compression with fast decompression
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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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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:
LZMAT - git mirror of LZMAT (http://www.matcode.com/lzmat.htm)
Snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor
doboz
zstd - Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
ZLib - A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.
LZHAM - Lossless data compression codec with LZMA-like ratios but 1.5x-8x faster decompression speed, C/C++
brotli - Brotli compression format
Minizip-ng - Fork of the popular zip manipulation library found in the zlib distribution.
PhysicsFS - PhysFS++ is a C++ wrapper for the PhysicsFS library.
LZFSE - LZFSE compression library and command line tool
KArchive - Qt addon providing access to numerous types of archives