Snappy VS smaz

Compare Snappy vs smaz and see what are their differences.

Snappy

A fast compressor/decompressor (by google)

smaz

Small strings compression library (by antirez)
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Snappy smaz
5 3
5,959 1,110
0.7% -
2.6 0.0
23 days 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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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.

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).*
  • C Deep
    80 projects | dev.to | 27 Feb 2021
    smaz - Efficient string compression library. BSD-3-Clause

What are some alternatives?

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

zstd - Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm

LZ4 - Extremely Fast Compression algorithm

brotli - Brotli compression format

ZLib - A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.

LZMA - (Unofficial) Git mirror of LZMA SDK releases

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

tiny_jpeg.h - Single header lib for JPEG encoding. Public domain. C99. stb style.

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

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