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snappy

brew install snappy v1.2.2 BSD-3-Clause

Fast compression/decompression C library optimized for speed over ratio.

Why you might care

Snappy prioritizes compression and decompression speed over maximum compression ratio, making it ideal for real-time data pipelines, logging systems, and caching layers where latency matters more than disk space. It's a dependency for many databases and message queues (RocksDB, Kafka, Protocol Buffers) and offers a simple C API with minimal overhead.

Categories

compression library

Alternatives

zstd lz4 gzip brotli
14.8k
30-day installs · #287
49.8k
90-day · #278
329.8k
365-day · #202

Build dependencies

cmake pkgconf

Links

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