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Zstd

Zstd (Zstandard) is a modern compression algorithm developed by Facebook that Nine uses for compressing database dumps and log files.

Advantages​

Compared to gzip's deflate algorithm, zstd offers:

  • Better compression ratios in most cases
  • Significantly faster compression speeds
  • Lower CPU usage (20-30% vs gzip's 100%)

Usage​

On Your Managed Server​

zstd, zstdcat, zstdgrep and zstdless are the most commonly used command line tools for managing zstd archives.

The most notable options for zstd are -d to decompress an archive and --rm to delete a compressed source file after it has been decompressed.

To learn more about the options, the --help command line parameter will show all options for the tools.

On Your Local Desktop​

We recommend 7zip if you want to decompress zstd archives on your local desktop. 7zip is available for all platforms.