# Zstd

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{{short description|Lossless compression algorithm}}
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{{Infobox software
| name = Zstandard
| author = Yann Collet
| developer = Yann Collet, Nick Terrell, Przemysław Skibiński<ref>{{cite web|title=Contributors to facebook/zstd |url=https://github.com/facebook/zstd/graphs/contributors |access-date=26 Jan 2021 |website=github.com}}</ref>
| operating system = [Cross-platform](/source/Cross-platform)
| genre = [Data compression](/source/Data_compression)
| programming language = [C](/source/C_(programming_language))
| license = [BSD-3-Clause](/source/BSD_licenses) or [GPL-2.0-or-later](/source/GNU_General_Public_License) (dual-licensed)
| logo = Zstandard logo.png
| logo_size = 110px
| released = {{Start date|2015|01|23|df=y}}
| discontinued =
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'''Zstandard''' is a [lossless data compression](/source/lossless_data_compression) algorithm developed by Yann Collet at [Facebook](/source/Facebook). '''Zstd''' is the corresponding [reference implementation](/source/reference_implementation) in [C](/source/C_(programming_language)), released as [open-source software](/source/open-source_software) on 31 August 2016.<ref>{{cite news
|last=De Simone
|first=Sergio
|date=2 September 2016
|url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/09/facebook-zstandard-compression
|title=Facebook Open-Sources New Compression Algorithm Outperforming Zlib
|publisher=InfoQ
|access-date=20 April 2019
|archive-date=7 October 2021
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211007055903/https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/09/facebook-zstandard-compression
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Williams |first=Chris |date=31 August 2016 |title=Life imitates satire: Facebook touts zlib killer just like Silicon Valley's Pied Piper |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/31/facebook_open_source_database/ |access-date=2016-09-06 |publisher=[The Register](/source/The_Register) |archive-date=3 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160903085435/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/31/facebook_open_source_database/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The algorithm was published in 2018 as {{IETF RFC|8478}}, which also defines an associated [media type](/source/media_type) "application/zstd", [filename extension](/source/filename_extension) "zst", and [HTTP content encoding](/source/HTTP_compression) "zstd".<ref name="RFC8478">
  {{cite IETF|title=Zstandard Compression and the application/zstd Media Type|rfc=8478|last1=Collet|first1=Yann|editor1-last=Kucherawy|editor1-first=Murray S.|editor1-link=Murray Kucherawy|date=October 2018|access-date=7 October 2020|series=Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comments}}
</ref>

==Features==
Zstandard was designed to give a [compression ratio](/source/Data_compression_ratio) comparable to that of the [DEFLATE](/source/DEFLATE) algorithm (developed in 1991 and used in the original [ZIP](/source/zip_(file_format)) and [gzip](/source/gzip) programs), but faster, especially for decompression. It is tunable with compression levels ranging from negative 7 (fastest)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Release Zstandard v1.3.4 - faster everything · facebook/zstd |url=https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.3.4 |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=GitHub |language=en |archive-date=11 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911024159/https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.3.4 |url-status=live }}</ref> to 22 (slowest in compression speed, but best compression ratio).

Starting from version 1.3.2 (October 2017), zstd optionally implements very-long-range search and deduplication ({{code|--long}}, 128&nbsp;MiB window) similar to [rzip](/source/rzip) or [lrzip](/source/lrzip).<ref>{{cite web |date=28 October 2021 |title=Command Line Interface for Zstandard library |url=https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/23dd28d/programs/README.md |website=GitHub |publisher=Facebook |language=en}}</ref>

Compression speed can vary by a factor of 20 or more between the fastest and slowest levels, while decompression is uniformly fast, varying by less than 20% between the fastest and slowest levels.<ref name=openzfs>{{cite web
|last=Jude
|first=Allan
|url=http://www.open-zfs.org/w/images/b/b3/03-OpenZFS_2017_-_ZStandard_in_ZFS.pdf
|title=ZStandard in ZFS
|date=2017
|access-date=20 April 2019
|website=open-zfs.org
|archive-date=18 December 2019
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191218102535/http://open-zfs.org/w/images/b/b3/03-OpenZFS_2017_-_ZStandard_in_ZFS.pdf
|url-status=live
}}</ref> The Zstandard command-line has an "adaptive" ({{code|--adapt}}) mode that varies compression level depending on I/O conditions, mainly how fast it can write the output.

Zstandard at its maximum compression level gives a compression ratio close to [lzma](/source/Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Markov_chain_algorithm), lzham, and [ppmx](/source/Prediction_by_partial_matching).<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://mattmahoney.net/dc/silesia.html
|title=Silesia Open Source Compression Benchmark
|last=Mahoney
|first=Matt
|access-date=10 May 2019
|archive-date=21 January 2022
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121165038/http://mattmahoney.net/dc/silesia.html
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html
|title=Large Text Compression Benchmark, .2157 zstd
|last=Mahoney
|first=Matt
|date=29 August 2016
|access-date=10 May 2019
|archive-date=31 March 2022
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331031650/http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html
|url-status=live
}}</ref> As of 2019, Zstandard reaches the [Pareto frontier](/source/Pareto_frontier) for decompression, as it produces output faster than any other open source algorithm with a similar or better compression ratio.<ref name="web-compression">{{citation
|title=TurboBench: Static/Dynamic web content compression benchmark
|url=https://sites.google.com/site/powturbo/home/web-compression
|publisher=PowTurbo
|access-date=6 January 2026
|archive-date=17 March 2022
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220317204149/https://sites.google.com/site/powturbo/home/web-compression
|url-status=live
}}</ref>

Dictionaries can have a large impact on the compression ratio of small files, so Zstandard can use a user-provided compression dictionary. It also offers a training mode, able to generate a dictionary from a set of samples.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Bockelman |first1=Brian |last2=Pivraski |first2=Jim |last3=Shadura |first3=Oksana |last4=Zhang |first4=Zhe |date=11 October 2017 |title=DIANA Contributions Update |quote=Facebook developers report massive speedups and compression ratio improvements when using dictionaries |url=https://indico.fnal.gov/event/15154/contribution/5/material/slides/0.pdf |access-date=27 March 2024 |website=[Fermilab](/source/Fermilab) |archive-date=25 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125015337/https://indico.fnal.gov/event/15154/contribution/5/material/slides/0.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|last1=Collet
|first1=Yann
|last2=Turner
|first2=Chip
|url=https://code.facebook.com/posts/1658392934479273/smaller-and-faster-data-compression-with-zstandard/
|title=Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
|date=31 August 2016
|publisher=Facebook
|access-date=3 September 2016
|archive-date=27 September 2016
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927080023/https://code.facebook.com/posts/1658392934479273/smaller-and-faster-data-compression-with-zstandard
|url-status=live
}}</ref> In particular, one dictionary can be loaded to process large sets of files with redundancy between files, but not necessarily within each file, such as for [log files](/source/log_files).

==Design==

Zstandard combines a dictionary-matching stage ([LZ77](/source/LZ77)) with a large search window and a fast [entropy-coding](/source/entropy_encoding) stage. It uses [Huffman coding](/source/Huffman_coding) alongside finite-state entropy (FSE), a variant of [tANS](/source/asymmetric_numeral_systems).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/23dd28d/doc/zstd_compression_format.md#entropy-encoding|title=Zstandard Compression Format|website=GitHub|publisher=Facebook|date=28 October 2021}}</ref>

==Usage==

{{Infobox file format
| name = Zstandard
| extension = <code>.zst</code><ref name="RFC8878">
  {{cite IETF
  |title=Zstandard Compression and the application/zstd Media Type
  |rfc=8878
  |last1=Collet
  |first1=Yann
  |editor1-last=Kucherawy
  |editor1-first=Murray S.
  |editor1-link=Murray Kucherawy
  |date=February 2021
  |access-date=26 February 2023
  |series=Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comments}}
</ref>
| mime = <code>application/zstd</code><ref name="RFC8878"/>
| genre = [Data compression](/source/Data_compression)
| magic = <code>28 B5 2F FD</code><ref name="RFC8878"/>
| standard = {{IETF RFC|8878}}
| url = {{URL|https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/doc/zstd_compression_format.md}}
}}

{{Infobox file format
| name = Zstandard Dictionary
| magic = <code>37 A4 30 EC</code><ref name="RFC8878"/>
| standard = {{IETF RFC|8878}}
| url = {{URL|https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/doc/zstd_compression_format.md#dictionary-format}}
}}
[[File:Example of zram on Linux screenshot.webp|thumb|Zstandard being used as compression method for [zram](/source/zram)]]
The [Linux kernel](/source/Linux_kernel) has included Zstandard since November 2017 (version 4.14) as a compression method for the [btrfs](/source/btrfs) and [squashfs](/source/squashfs) filesystems,<ref>{{cite web |last=Corbet |first=Jonathan |date=17 September 2017 |title=The rest of the 4.14 merge window [LWN.net] |url=https://lwn.net/Articles/733846/ |access-date=27 March 2024 |website=[lwn.net](/source/lwn.net) |archive-date=22 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211122141753/https://lwn.net/Articles/733846/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=30 December 2017 |title=Linux_4.14 |url=https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.14 |access-date=16 August 2018 |website=Kernelnewbies.org |archive-date=10 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110114105/https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.14 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Larabel |first=Michael |date=8 September 2017 |title=Zstd Compression For Btrfs & Squashfs Set For Linux 4.14, Already Used Within Facebook |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.14-Zstd-Pull |website=www.phoronix.com |access-date=13 November 2017 |archive-date=25 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725122757/https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.14-Zstd-Pull |url-status=live }}</ref> as well as for [loadable kernel module](/source/loadable_kernel_module)s.

In 2017, Allan Jude integrated Zstandard into the [FreeBSD](/source/FreeBSD) kernel,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/28ef16535cde21eeeaf75f6006b3a77952b3b51 | title=Integrate ZSTD into the kernel · freebsd/Freebsd-SRC@28ef165 | website=[GitHub](/source/GitHub) |publisher=The FreeBSD Project }}</ref> and it was subsequently integrated as a compressor option for core dumps (both user programs and kernel panics). It was also used to create a proof-of-concept [OpenZFS](/source/OpenZFS) compression method<ref name=openzfs /> which was integrated in 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/commit/10b3c7f5e424f54b3ba82dbf1600d866e64ec0a0|title=Add ZSTD support to ZFS · openzfs/ZFS@10b3c7f|website=[GitHub](/source/GitHub)|publisher=OpenZFS|access-date=12 October 2020|archive-date=10 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200910151903/https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/commit/10b3c7f5e424f54b3ba82dbf1600d866e64ec0a0|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [AWS Redshift](/source/AWS_Redshift) and [RocksDB](/source/RocksDB) databases include support for field compression using Zstandard.<ref name=Redshift>{{cite web
|url=https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/zstd-encoding.html
|title=Zstandard Encoding - Amazon Redshift
|date=20 April 2019
|publisher=Amazon Web Services
|access-date=24 January 2018
|archive-date=14 August 2021
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814225631/https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/zstd-encoding.html
|url-status=dead
}}<!-- root? hadoop? MyRocks ? SQL servers? --></ref>

In March 2018, [Canonical](/source/Canonical_(company)) tested<ref name="ubuntudeb">{{cite web |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Zstd-Deb-Packages |title=Canonical Working On Zstd-Compressed Debian Packages For Ubuntu |last=Larabel |first=Michael |date=12 March 2018 |website=phoronix.com |publisher=Phoronix Media |access-date=29 October 2019 |quote=The developers at Canonical are considering a feature freeze exception to get this newly-developed Zstd Apt/Dpkg support in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. In doing so, they mention they would be looking at enabling Zstd compression for packages by default in Ubuntu 18.10. |archive-date=16 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816101454/https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Zstd-Deb-Packages |url-status=live }}</ref> the use of zstd as a [deb package](/source/deb_(file_format)) compression method by default for the [Ubuntu](/source/Ubuntu_(operating_system)) Linux distribution. Compared with [xz](/source/XZ_Utils) compression of deb packages, zstd at level 19 decompresses significantly faster, but at the cost of 6% larger package files. Support was added to Debian (and subsequently, Ubuntu) in April 2018 (in version 1.6~rc1).<ref>{{cite web
|last=Nestor
|first=Marius
|title=New Ubuntu Installs Could Be Speed Up by 10% with the Zstd Compression Algorithm
|url=https://news.softpedia.com/news/new-ubuntu-installs-could-be-speed-up-by-10-with-the-zstd-compression-algorithm-520177.shtml
|website=Softpedia
|access-date=13 August 2018
|date=12 March 2018
|archive-date=6 October 2021
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006045638/https://news.softpedia.com/news/new-ubuntu-installs-could-be-speed-up-by-10-with-the-zstd-compression-algorithm-520177.shtml
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref name="ubuntudeb"/><ref>
{{cite web
|title=Debian Changelog for apt
|url=https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/a/apt/apt_1.8.2.3_changelog
|website=Debian
|access-date=7 November 2022
|language=en
|date=19 April 2021
}}</ref>

[Fedora](/source/Fedora_(operating_system)) added ZStandard support to [RPM](/source/RPM_Package_Manager) in May 2018 (Fedora release 28) and used it for packaging the release in October 2019 (Fedora&nbsp;31).<ref>{{cite web |title=Changes/Switch RPMS to ZSTD compression |url=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Switch_RPMs_to_zstd_compression |website=Fedora Project Wiki |access-date=8 July 2020 |archive-date=2 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190602192906/https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Switch_RPMs_to_zstd_compression |url-status=live }}</ref> In Fedora&nbsp;33, the filesystem is compressed by default with zstd.<ref>{{cite web |last=Thurman |first=Andrew |date=14 April 2021 |title=Fedora Workstation 34 feature focus: Btrfs transparent compression |url=https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-workstation-34-feature-focus-btrfs-transparent-compression/ |access-date=12 May 2022 |website=Fedora Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Changes/BtrfsTransparentCompression |url=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BtrfsTransparentCompression |access-date=2022-05-12 |website=Fedora Project Wiki}}</ref>

[Arch Linux](/source/Arch_Linux) added support for zstd as a package compression method in October 2019 with the release of the [pacman](/source/Pacman_(software))&nbsp;5.2 package manager<ref>{{cite web |last=Larabel |first=Michael |date=16 October 2019 |title=Arch Linux Nears Roll-Out of ZSTD Compressed Packages for Faster Pacman Installs |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Arch-Linux-Pacman-Zstd-Near |website=Phoronix |access-date=21 October 2019 |archive-date=18 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318032712/https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Arch-Linux-Pacman-Zstd-Near |url-status=live }}</ref> and in January 2020 switched from xz to zstd for the packages in the official repository. Arch uses <code>zstd -c -T0 --ultra -20 -</code>; while the size of all compressed packages combined increased by 0.8% (compared to xz), the decompression speed is 14<!-- 1300% --> times faster, decompression memory increased by 50&nbsp;MiB when using multiple threads, and compression memory increased but scales with the number of threads used.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.archlinux.org/news/now-using-zstandard-instead-of-xz-for-package-compression/ |title=Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression |last=Broda |first=Mara |date=4 January 2020 |website=Arch Linux |access-date=5 January 2020 |archive-date=18 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318032814/https://archlinux.org/news/now-using-zstandard-instead-of-xz-for-package-compression/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite mailing list |url=https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2019-March/029542.html |mailing-list=arch-dev-public |title=RFC: (devtools) Changing default compression method to zstd |first=Mara |last=Broda |date=2019-03-25 |access-date=5 January 2020 |archive-date=17 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817122817/https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2019-March/029542.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>
{{cite web |last1=Broda |first1=Mara |last2=Polyak |first2=Levente |date=27 December 2019 |title=makepkg.conf: change default compression method to zstd |website=[GitHub](/source/GitHub) |url=https://github.com/archlinux/devtools/commit/bcda211dd86b3bf54a9bc40d2e19f1aad4bbfbb8}}
</ref> Arch Linux later also switched to zstd as the default compression algorithm for mkinitcpio [initial ramdisk](/source/initial_ramdisk) generator.<ref>{{cite web|last=Razzolini|first=Giancarlo|date=19 February 2021|title=News: Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio|url=https://archlinux.org/news/moving-to-zstandard-images-by-default-on-mkinitcpio/|access-date=2021-12-28|website=Arch Linux}}</ref>

On 15 June 2020, Zstandard was implemented in version 6.3.8 of the zip file format with codec number&nbsp;93, deprecating the previous codec number of&nbsp;20 as it was implemented in version 6.3.7, released on 1 June.<ref name="zip638">{{citation |url=http://www.pkware.com/documents/APPNOTE/APPNOTE-6.3.8.TXT |title=APPNOTE.TXT - .ZIP File Format Specification Version: 6.3.8 |date=15 June 2020 |publisher=PKWARE |access-date=7 July 2020 }}</ref><ref name="zip637">{{citation |url=http://www.pkware.com/documents/APPNOTE/APPNOTE-6.3.7.TXT |title=APPNOTE.TXT - .ZIP File Format Specification Version: 6.3.7 |date=1 June 2020 |publisher=PKWARE |access-date=6 June 2020 }}</ref>

On 31 October 2023 Official Zstd support for compression/decompression was added to Windows Explorer in Windows 11 (via update package KB5031455)

In March 2024, [Google Chrome](/source/Google_Chrome) version 123 (and [Chromium](/source/Chromium_(web_browser))-based browsers such as [Brave](/source/Brave_(web_browser)) or [Microsoft Edge](/source/Microsoft_Edge)) added zstd support in the [HTTP header](/source/HTTP_header) <code>Content-Encoding</code>.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jara |first=Adriana |date=19 March 2024 |orig-date= |title=New in Chrome 123 {{!}} Chrome Blog |url=https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-chrome-123 |access-date=16 April 2024 |website=Chrome for Developers |publisher=Google |language=en}}</ref> In May 2024, [Firefox](/source/Firefox) release 126.0 added zstd support  in the [HTTP header](/source/HTTP_header) <code>Content-Encoding</code>.<ref>{{cite web |title=Firefox 126.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes |url=https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/126.0/releasenotes/ |date=May 2024 |access-date=15 May 2024 |archive-date=13 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240513202356/https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/126.0/releasenotes/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==License==
The reference implementation is licensed under the [BSD license](/source/BSD_licenses), published at [GitHub](/source/GitHub).<ref>{{cite news|last=Dignan |first=Larry |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-open-sources-zstandard-data-compression-algorithm-aims-to-replace-technology-behind-zip/|title=Facebook open sources Zstandard data compression algorithm, aims to replace technology behind Zip|date=31 August 2016|publisher=[ZDnet](/source/ZDnet)|access-date=1 September 2016}}</ref> Since version 1.0, published 31 August 2016,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Zstandard v1.0 |url=https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.0.0 |access-date=2025-01-23 |date=2016-08-31 |website=GitHub |publisher=Facebook |archive-date=7 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407231122/https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.0.0 |url-status=live }}</ref> it had an additional Grant of Patent Rights.<ref>{{Cite web |title=v1.3.0/PATENTS · facebook/zstd |url=https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/v1.3.0/PATENTS |access-date=27 March 2024 |date=30 August 2016 |website=GitHub |publisher=Facebook |language=en |archive-date=15 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515045048/https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/v1.3.0/PATENTS |url-status=live }}</ref>

From version 1.3.1, released 20 August 2017,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Release Zstandard v1.3.1 · facebook/zstd |url=https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.3.1 |access-date=27 March 2024 |date=20 August 2017 |website=GitHub |publisher=Facebook |language=en |archive-date=12 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200912235153/https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.3.1 |url-status=live }}</ref> this patent grant was dropped and the license was changed to a BSD + GPLv2 dual license.<ref>{{Cite web |title=New license by Cyan4973 · Pull Request #801 · facebook/zstd |url=https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/801 |access-date=27 March 2024 |date=19 August 2017 |website=GitHub |publisher=Facebook |language=en |archive-date=12 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200912201251/https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/801 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==See also==
* [LZ4 (compression algorithm)](/source/LZ4_(compression_algorithm)) – a fast member of the LZ77 family
* [LZFSE](/source/LZFSE) – a similar algorithm by Apple used since iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 and made open source on 1 June 2016
* [Zlib](/source/Zlib)
* [Brotli](/source/Brotli) – also integrated into browsers
* [Gzip](/source/Gzip) – one of the most widely used compression tools

==References==
{{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}

==External links==
* {{Official website}}
* {{Github|facebook/zstd}}
* {{GitHub|mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd|7zip with Zstandard}}
* "[https://engineering.fb.com/2016/08/31/core-infra/smaller-and-faster-data-compression-with-zstandard/ Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard]", Yann Collet and Chip Turner, 31 August 2016, Facebook Announcement
* [https://www.theguardian.com/info/developer-blog/2016/dec/01/discover-new-compression-iinovations-brotli-and-zstandard The Guardian is using ZStandard instead of zlib]

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