zstd VS ZLib

Compare zstd vs ZLib and see what are their differences.

zstd

Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm (by facebook)

ZLib

A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library. (by madler)
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zstd ZLib
101 49
22,045 5,219
2.0% -
9.6 8.9
7 days ago 3 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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 2024-02-17.

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 2023-11-25.

What are some alternatives?

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

LZ4 - Extremely Fast Compression algorithm

Snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor

LZMA - (Unofficial) Git mirror of LZMA SDK releases

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

brotli - Brotli compression format

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

Onion - C library to create simple HTTP servers and Web Applications.

Minizip-ng - Fork of the popular zip manipulation library found in the zlib distribution.