@napi-rs/snappy

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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 @napi-rs/snappy

Support matrix

	node12	node14	node16
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	✓	✓	✓
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 10 x86_64
Host: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7C35
Kernel: 10.0.19043
Terminal: Windows Terminal
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (32) @ 3.400GHz
Memory: 15959MiB / 32688MiB

Result

Running "Compress data" suite...
Progress: 100%

  @napi-rs/snappy:
    333 ops/s, ±2.10%   | fastest

  snappy node:
    163 ops/s, ±1.44%   | slowest, 51.05% slower

Finished 2 cases!
  Fastest: @napi-rs/snappy
  Slowest: snappy node
Running "Uncompress data" suite...
Progress: 100%

  @napi-rs/snappy:
    980 ops/s, ±1.85%   | fastest

  snappy node:
    256 ops/s, ±0.61%   | slowest, 73.88% slower

Finished 2 cases!
  Fastest: @napi-rs/snappy
  Slowest: snappy node

Running "Small size sync compress" suite...
Progress: 100%

  @napi-rs/snappy:
    505 211 ops/s, ±7.97%   | slowest, 47% slower

  snappy js:
    953 272 ops/s, ±0.37%   | fastest

Finished 2 cases!
  Fastest: snappy js
  Slowest: @napi-rs/snappy