On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Huchev <hugochevr...@gmail.com> wrote: > For a C implementation, it could interesting to consider LZ4 algorithm, since > it is written natively in this language. In contrast, Snappy has been ported > to C by Andy from the original C++ Google code, which lso translate into > less extensive usage and tests.
>From what I can tell, the C implementation of snappy has more tests than this LZ4 implementation, including a fuzz tester. It's a maintained part of Linux as well, and used for btrfs --- this is why it was ported. The high compression version of LZ4 is apparently LGPL. And, finally, there is the issue of patents: snappy has several multi-billion dollar companies that can be held liable (originator Google, as well as anyone connected to Linux), and to the best of my knowledge, nobody has been held to extortion yet. Consider me unconvinced as to this line of argument. -- fdr -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
