Are there benchmarks of Java LZO vs. Deflate vs. Gzip available?

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The (very outdated) page for LZO contains a link to a Java implementation. There is also the vague promise of "New ... Java ... interfaces ... sometime in the near future.", but I believe that has been there for a few years.

This makes me think that the old LZO Java implementation may have been slow. Are there any benchmarks measuring the performance, as well as its relative performance to other compressors (eg, deflate)?

Note that there is also a recent new java LZO variant, "lzo-java": https://github.com/Karmasphere/lzo-java which seems like an acceptable conversion. As per benchmark linked-to below, LZO (as all the other lz-derivatives, including Snappy) is indeed faster than Deflate/gzip, with lower compression ratio. — StaxMan, Jul 22 '11 at 19:59

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 14 '11 at 18:06

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There's a relatively new project: https://github.com/ning/jvm-compressor-benchmark which compares deflate, and while LZO is not included, adding driver for it should be easy.

answered Apr 14 '11 at 18:06

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mahadevan gss · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-10T18:28:59.133

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I have ported the latest minilzo.c to java. Initial version is at http://code.google.com/p/java-compress/. Shortly I will adding java based benchmarks for my port.

regards

mahadevan

edited Mar 10 '10 at 18:28

answered Mar 10 '10 at 18:21

mahadevan gss

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Is this project still active? I did not see much activity since your post. – StaxMan Apr 16 '11 at 19:56

Are there benchmarks of Java LZO vs. Deflate vs. Gzip available?

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