smaz VS Snappy

Compare smaz vs Snappy and see what are their differences.

smaz

Small strings compression library (by antirez)

Snappy

A fast compressor/decompressor (by google)
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smaz Snappy
3 6
1,185 6,320
0.8% 0.3%
0.0 5.6
over 5 years ago about 2 months ago
C C++
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.
  • Advanced MessagePack capabilities
    4 projects | dev.to | 13 Oct 2021
    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).*
  • Improving short string compression.
    1 project | /r/compression | 29 Jul 2021
    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.
  • C Deep
    80 projects | dev.to | 27 Feb 2021
    smaz - Efficient string compression library. BSD-3-Clause

Snappy

Posts with mentions or reviews of Snappy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-14.
  • Snappy: Fast Compressor/Decompressor
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2025
  • Why I enjoy using the Nim programming language at Reddit.
    10 projects | /r/RedditEng | 14 Nov 2022
    Another example of Nim being really fast is the supersnappy library. This library benchmarks faster than Google’s C or C++ Snappy implementation.
  • Stretch iPhone to Its Limit: 2GiB Stable Diffusion Model Runs Locally on Device
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Nov 2022
    It doesn't destroy performance for the simple reason that nowadays memory access has higher latency than pure compute. If you need to use compute to produce some data to be stored in memory, your overall throughput could very well be faster than without compression.

    There have been a large amount of innovation on fast compression in recent years. Traditional compression tools like gzip or xz are geared towards higher compression ratio, but memory compression tends to favor speed. Check out those algorithms:

    * lz4: https://lz4.github.io/lz4/

    * Google's snappy: https://github.com/google/snappy

    * Facebook's zstd in fast mode: http://facebook.github.io/zstd/#benchmarks

  • Compression with best ratio and fast decompression
    1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 30 Aug 2022
    Google released Snappy, which is extremely fast and robust (both at compression and decompression), but it's definitely not nearly as good (in terms of compression ratio). Google mostly uses it for real-time compression, for example of network messages - not for long-term storage.
  • How to store item info?
    1 project | /r/GameDevelopment | 4 Sep 2021
    Just compress it! Of course if you will you ZIP, players will able to just open this zip file and change whatever they want. But you can use less popular compression algorithms which are not supported by default Windows File Explorer. Snappy for example.
  • What's the best way to compress strings?
    6 projects | /r/cpp | 29 Jul 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing smaz and Snappy you can also consider the following projects:

doboz

zstd - Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm

ZLib - A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.

LZMAT - git mirror of LZMAT (http://www.matcode.com/lzmat.htm)

brotli - Brotli compression format

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