snappy
!!! For snappy@6.x and below, please go to node-snappy.
More background about the 6-7 changes, please read this, Thanks @kesla .
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Fastest Snappy compression library in Node.js, powered by napi-rs and rust-snappy.
For small size data, snappyjs is faster, and it support browser. But it doesn't have async API, which is important for Node.js program.
Install this package
yarn add snappy
Support matrix
| node12 | node14 | node16 | node18 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows x64 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Windows x32 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Windows arm64 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| macOS x64 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| macOS arm64 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linux x64 gnu | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linux x64 musl | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linux arm gnu | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linux arm64 gnu | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Linux arm64 musl | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Android arm64 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Android armv7 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FreeBSD x64 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
API
export function compressSync(input: Buffer | string | ArrayBuffer | Uint8Array): Buffer
export function compress(input: Buffer | string | ArrayBuffer | Uint8Array): Promise<Buffer>
export function uncompressSync(compressed: Buffer): Buffer
export function uncompress(compressed: Buffer): Promise<Buffer>Performance
Hardware
OS: Windows 11 x86_64
Host: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7C35
Kernel: 10.0.22000
Terminal: Windows Terminal
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (32) @ 3.400GHz
Memory: 32688MiB
Result
Running "Compress" suite...
Progress: 100%
snappy:
4 220 ops/s, ±0.66% | fastest
snappy-v6:
2 018 ops/s, ±0.84% | 52.18% slower
gzip:
233 ops/s, ±0.52% | slowest, 94.48% slower
deflate:
235 ops/s, ±0.45% | 94.43% slower
brotli:
7 ops/s, ±0.51% | slowest, 99.85% slower
Finished 4 cases!
Fastest: snappy
Slowest: brotli
Running "Decompress" suite...
Progress: 100%
snappy:
8 528 ops/s, ±1.03% | fastest
snappy-v6:
6 357 ops/s, ±1.76% | 25.46% slower
gzip:
1 406 ops/s, ±1.80% | slowest, 83.51% slower
deflate:
1 435 ops/s, ±1.88% | 83.17% slower
brotli:
1 208 ops/s, ±1.50% | slowest, 86.99% slower
Finished 4 cases!
Fastest: snappy
Slowest: brotli
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