zarrzipan 0.0.2

A zarr-based compression benchmarking tool

Zarrzipan: A raster compression benchmarking tool

Zarrzipan is a compression benchmarking tool based on Zarr.

Usage

An example of how to use Zarrzipan is included in the example.py script.

To run this example and generate the benchmark results, execute:

uv run python example.py

Benchmark Results

The following table summarizes the benchmark results generated by example.py:

Dataset Name	Pipeline Name	Chunk Shape	Iterations	Compression Ratio	Space Saving	Avg Compress Time (ms)	Avg Decompress Time (ms)	Lossiness (MAE)
SampleFloat32Array	ZlibCompression	(50, 50)	3	3.34x	0.30	2.90	1.59	0.0000
SampleFloat32Array	BloscCompression	(50, 50)	3	6.37x	0.16	9.75	1.50	0.0000

What does "zarrzipan" mean?

Zarrzipan, pronounced like marzipan, is like "Zarr zip analysis", where zip is a general allusion to compression and not a reference to the specific zip archive format.