Kanzi is a modern, modular, portable, and efficient lossless data compressor.
Unlike many mainstream lossless compressors, Kanzi is not limited to a single compression approach. It combines multiple algorithms and techniques to offer a broad range of compression ratios and adapt to different types of data. It is designed to exploit multi-core CPUs by compressing blocks in parallel.
Kanzi is a data compressor, not an archiver. It does not provide features such as cross-file deduplication or data recovery, and it is not compatible with standard compression formats.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Fast lossless data compression
- Multi-threaded by design
- Selectable entropy codecs and data transforms
- Supports a broad range of compression ratios
- Content-aware transforms for specific data types
- Produces a seekable bitstream
- No external dependencies
- Builds on Linux, macOS, BSD, and Windows
- Offers command-line tools and C/C++ APIs
Website: github.com/flanglet/kanzi-cpp
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Developer: flanglet
License: Apache License 2.0
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