Mamba is a reimplementation of the conda package manager in C++.

* Parallel downloading of repository data and package files using multi-threading;
* libsolv for much faster dependency solving, a state of the art library used in the
RPM package manager of Red Hat, Fedora and OpenSUSE;
* Core parts of mamba are implemented in C++ for maximum efficiency.

At the same time, mamba utilizes the same command line parser, package installation and deinstallation code and transaction verification routines as conda to stay as compatible as possible.

Mamba is part of a bigger ecosystem to make scientific packaging more sustainable. The ecosystem also consists of quetz, an open source conda package server and boa, a fast conda package builder.