Top 4 delta-compression Open-Source Projects

HDiffPatch

5 1,379 8.3 C++

a C\C++ library and command-line tools for Diff & Patch between binary files or directories(folder); cross-platform; runs fast; create small delta/differential; support large files and limit memory requires when diff & patch.
fleece

2 309 7.1 C++

A super-fast, compact, JSON-equivalent binary data format

Project mention: fleece: A super-fast, compact, JSON-equivalent binary data format | /r/programming | 2023-12-06

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
dipa

10 256 0.0 Rust

dipa makes it easy to efficiently delta encode large Rust data structures.

Project mention: What's everyone working on this week (17/2023)? | /r/rust | 2023-04-24

Have you seen https://github.com/chinedufn/dipa or https://docs.rs/serde-diff? I haven’t used either yet but they sound similar.

detools

2 155 4.7 Python

Binary delta encoding tools.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).