SNAP vs TAR — Differences, File Size & When to Use Each

SNAP vs TAR

Perbandingan lengkap antara Snap Package dan TAR Archive — ukuran file, kualitas, kompatibilitas, serta format mana yang sebaiknya dipilih untuk alur kerja Anda.

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SNAP

Snap Package

Archives & Compressed

Snap is a universal Linux package format developed by Canonical that bundles an application with all its dependencies into a single containerized package. Snaps are sandboxed, auto-update, and work across many Linux distributions.

Tentang file SNAP

TAR

TAR Archive

Archives & Compressed

TAR is a Unix archive format that bundles files together without compression. It is commonly combined with gzip or bzip2 for compressed archives and is the standard for Linux software distribution.

Tentang file TAR

Perbandingan Keunggulan

SNAP Keunggulan

Cross-distro portable — one .snap runs on Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, etc.
Sandboxed with AppArmor + seccomp confinement.
Automatic updates with delta downloads.
Bundled dependencies eliminate "DLL Hell" for Linux.
First-class support in Ubuntu Core for IoT.

TAR Keunggulan

Streamable — you can tar files straight to a network pipe, no seek needed.
Preserves Unix permissions, ownership, symbolic links, and timestamps.
Universally supported on Unix-like systems.
Simple format — the GNU tar source has been stable for decades.
No compression overhead — pair with gzip/xz/zstd as needed.

Keterbatasan

SNAP Keterbatasan

Slower app startup due to SquashFS mount overhead.
Canonical-controlled single store — no federation.
Disk usage higher than native packages.
Community pushback outside Ubuntu ecosystem.
Flatpak is the main competitor and preferred on non-Ubuntu distros.

TAR Keterbatasan

No built-in compression — plain .tar files are the same size as their contents.
No random access — reading one file requires scanning from the start.
Windows tooling is second-class — PowerShell only added native tar in 2018.
Multiple incompatible header variants (v7, ustar, POSIX, GNU) over the years.

Spesifikasi Teknis

Spesifikasi	SNAP	TAR
MIME type	application/vnd.snap	application/x-tar
Extension	.snap	.tar
Container	SquashFS filesystem image	—
Manifest	snapcraft.yaml	—
Runtime	snapd (Canonical)	—
Block size	—	512 bytes (traditional)
Header variants	—	v7, ustar, POSIX.1-2001 (pax), GNU
Max filename length	—	100 bytes (v7); unlimited (pax extended headers)

Ukuran File Umum

SNAP

Small CLI tool snap 2-20 MB
Desktop app snap (Firefox, LibreOffice) 150-400 MB
Complex IDE snap 500 MB - 2 GB

TAR

1 MB of source files (uncompressed .tar) ~1 MB
Same files as .tar.gz 150-400 KB
Linux kernel source (.tar.xz) ~120 MB

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