- Extension
- .zst
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Developer
- Facebook
- Description
- Zstandard is a fast compression algorithm, providing high compression ratios. It also offers a special mode for small data, called dictionary compression. The reference library offers a very wide range of speed / compression trade-off, and is backed by an extremely fast decoder (see benchmarks below). Zstandard library is provided as open source software using a BSD license. Its format is stable and published as IETF RFC 8478.
- MIME Type
- application/zstd
