The rate of compression of RAR is better than that of the ZIP format. Creating RAR files would require proprietary software such as WinRAR; whereas, ZIP is available on a lot of commercial and open source tools, and libraries. The minimum size allowed for a ZIP file is 22 bytes, and the minimum size of a RAR file is 20 bytes. RAR has an overall better compression ratio when compared to ZIP, its biggest competitor. What is a 7Z archive? Unsurprisingly, the 7Z archive format was introduced by Windows application 7-Zip. That was all the way back in 1999! 7-Zip and a library to read the 7Z file format are both publicly available under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

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