jameswei / zimg

A light and high performance image storage and processing system written by C.

#zimg#

zimg (Homepage) is a light image storage and processing system. It's written by C and it has high performance in image field. There is a benchmark test report with more infomation: Benchmark. zimg is designed for high concurrency image server. It supports many features for uploading and getting images.

Author: @招牌疯子
Contact me: [email protected]

Versions:

• 08/01/2013 - zimg 1.0.0 Release.

Dependence:

We stand on the shoulders of giants.

libevent: Provides a sophisticated framework for buffered network IO.
libevhtp: A more flexible replacement for libevent's httpd API.
imagemagick: A software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images.
memcached: A distributed memory object caching system.

Supplying:

Receive and storage users' upload images.
Transfer image through HTTP protocol.
Process resized and grayed image by request parameter.
Use memcached to improve performance.
Multi-thread support for multi-core processor server.

In Planning:

Distributed architecture.
Performance optimization.
Security measures.

Documentation:

There is a architecture design document of zimg. It is written in Chinese.
Architecture Design of Image Server

Download:

The source code is licensed under a BSD-like License.
All versions on Github.

Build:

cd zimg  
make  
./zimg  

Feedback:

If you have any question, please submit comment here or mention me on Weibo.
Technical issues are also welcomed to be submitted on GitHub.