Why not just use Avro if you want a packed encoding system that's schema-bound, or Fudge if you want one that's schema free and self-describing? Link to Avro:

Why not just use Avro if you want a packed encoding system that's schema-bound, or Fudge if you want one that's schema free and self-describing? Link to Avro: http://hadoop.apache.org/avro/ http://hadoop.apache.org/avro/ Link to Fudge: http://www.fudgemsg.org/ http://www.fudgemsg.org/ Couldn't do hyperlinks for some reason. Perhaps because I'm a moron.