What is the difference between .bz and .rar?
- Extension
- .bz
- .rar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Julian Seward
- Eugene Roshal
- Description
- It's an archive file created using Bzip compression that uses the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm and the Run-Length Encoding (RLE) to compress. Although the compression is slower compared to Gzip compression, it's of better quality. It is mainly developed by Unix OS.
- A RAR file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed with RAR compression. It uses a higher compression ratio than typical ZIP compression and incorporates a proprietary compression algorithm that is now used by other compressors, including 7-Zip for its .7Z files. RAR files may be extracted using a variety of programs.
- MIME Type
- application/x-bzip
- application/x-rar-compressed
- Sample
- sample.rar
- Wikipedia
- .bz on Wikipedia
- .rar on Wikipedia