I agree that LZMA beats Brotli in compression in the majority of cases (not by much), zStandard does not however. The thing that makes Brotli attractive though

I agree that LZMA beats Brotli in compression in the majority of cases (not by much), zStandard does not however. The thing that makes Brotli attractive though, is that it has high compression (again, very close to LZMA, sometimes even better) while decompressing MUCH faster than LZMA. The big downside is that it is very slow in compressing, which makes it mainly suitable for 'compress once, decompress MANY times' type data.