zstandard (zstd)

wikipedia:zstd, zstandard (2015, Yann Collet) is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Yann Collet at Facebook released in 2016.

• Man page: https://www.manpagez.com/man/1/zstd/
• Installation: apt install zstd

Characteristics:

• Parallel (multi-threaded) implementations of both compression and decompression.

• Available in MongoDB since MongoDB 4.2 (2019)

Examples

• Compress a file:
  • zstd filename_to_compress

• Compress a file and delete original file after compression:
  • zstd --rm filename_to_compress

• Decompress a file:
  • unzstd filename_to_decompress

Activities

• Read https://engineering.fb.com/2016/08/31/core-infra/smaller-and-faster-data-compression-with-zstandard/

Related terms

• squashfs support zstd compression
• RocksDB
• xz
• AWS Fargate: Reducing AWS Fargate Startup Times with zstd Compressed Container Images

See also

• Data compression, zstd, unzstd
• Data compression, decompression: gzip (DEFLATE), bzip2 (BWT), zcat (cat), xz (LZMA), LZMA2, 7-Zip (7z), xzcat, LZ4, tar, zstd, unzip, Yann Collet, Igor Pavlov, PAQ, zip, gunzip, Brotli