Zstandard (zstd)

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

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

• Available in MongoDB since MongoDB 4.2

• 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

See also

• 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
• squashfs
• RocksDB