Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to ZStandard
A fast real-time compression algorithm by Facebook
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. ZStandard launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Smaller and faster data compression open-source by Facebook
2016 · engineering.fb.com · its alternatives →
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Magically make your Redis data smaller with Zstandard compression. - chadnickbok/redis-zstd-module
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello, I would like to share a Rust implementation of the Zstandard seekable format I've been working on. Regular zstd compressed files consist of a single frame, meaning you have to start decompression at the beginning. The seekable format splits compressed data into a series of independent frames, each compressed individually, so that decompression of a section in the middle of an archive only requires zstd to decompress at most a frame's worth of extra data, instead of the entire archive. I started working with the seekable format because I wanted to resume downloads of big zstd…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ZFS, in Python, without reading the original C. Contribute to alcarithemad/zfsp development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TinyFast▲319I am a developer. I have been building stuff for the last 13 years. One common challenge in all my projects is compressing assets to make them as small as possible. I used to end up using online compressors, but this has a lot of privacy concerns. So, I finally set down for couple of weeks and built this simple app. I can just drag and drop assets in it and it shrinks them. It currently supports around 25 file types. I built a lot of iOS apps but this is the first time building a macOS app, so any feedback is welcome.
2025 · tinyfast.app · its alternatives →
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xPress File archiver and extractor. Contribute to zelon88/xPress development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built an experiment that uses an overfitted transformer and arithmetic coding to compress individual files. Instead of training the model to generalize, I train a 900KB transformer to memorize a single file and predict the next byte. Those predictions are fed into an arithmetic coder to produce the compressed output. On a 100MB NYC taxi CSV, it compresses to about 7MB (~0.5 bits/byte). On a 100MB slice of enwik9, it compresses to about 21MB (~1.68 bits/byte). It's pretty slow right now (roughly 20–30 minutes of training and 45 minutes each for compression and decompression on my…
Jun 2026 · its alternatives →
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Compressio▲92Free, open source image compression API & webapp
2021 · compressio.app · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, author here. I built ZXC, a lossless compression library designed specifically for "Write Once, Read Many" scenarios (Game assets, Firmware, App bundles). The Concept: Standard real-time codecs (LZ4, Snappy) are designed for symmetry. ZXC explores an asymmetric approach: it spends significantly more CPU cycles at compression time to generate a bitstream specifically structured for modern, wide-issue execution pipelines (maximizing Instruction Level Parallelism). Performance (Verified via lzbench integration): ZXC was merged into the official lzbench repository monday. ARM64 (Apple…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TinyPNG▲119Compress PNG images that preserves full alpha transparency
2014 · tinypng.com · its alternatives →
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Improving classic Lempel-Ziv-Welch with edit distance matching - BrowserBox/LZW-X
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · excamera.com · its alternatives →
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⚡ The fastest directory crawler & globbing library for NodeJS. Crawls 1m files in < 1s - thecodrr/fdir
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · code.rosaelefanten.org · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! My friends and I built a new platform for generating images. The app is easy to use for people who find ComfyUI hard to use, or just simply don’t have a GPU to use it on. For those not familiar, ComfyUI is a great tool for using open-source models like Stable Diffusion. It’s primarily great because it’s a node-based tool, which means you can chain together models, upscalers, prompting nodes, etc… which let you create images in the exact aesthetic you want. There’s also a vibrant dev community behind ComfyUI, which means that there are a ton of nodes and customizability. We’re users…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Professional video compressor without losing quality
2023 · imyfone.com · its alternatives →
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Embeddable minimal in-memory GZIP decompression library for embedded systems - wkoszek/mini_gzip
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Facebook's Katran looked too scary (and I don't do C++), so I thought I would investigate using XDP/eBPF to redirect packets at high speed and Go to do the control plane work of health-checking backed servers and managing configuration. With luck the resulting binary should be easy to deploy by non-developers. It's still not mature, but seems to work. Code was written in a very exploratory manner, and I'm not a developer so it is quite shocking at the moment, but I aim to improve it. It is intended to be horizontally scalable with ECMP and has been tested on service providing…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Runtime behavior diffs for pull requests. Contribute to issacnitin/RealDiff development by creating an account on GitHub.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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integer compression library for Zig based on FastLanes - steelcake/zint
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A simple re-implementation of Google's sparsehash as a learning excercise. - qpfiffer/Simple-Sparsehash
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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