Today, Facebook is releasing its Zstandard compression algorithm into the wild as open source. The lossless compression technology is aimed at replacing existing libraries like Zlib that are powered by the outdated Deflate compression algorithm. In addition to Zstandard, Facebook is also dropping its MyRocks storage engine as open source. MyRocks is currently being used by Facebook…
via Facebook open sources Zstandard compression algorithm and MyRocks storage engine — TechCrunch
September 1, 2016 at 5:03 am
This should come as marvelous news to developers across the world. Among other scoring points, this development would significantly improve both data transmission speeds, download as well as upload differentials.
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