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So basically it's Amazon's version of Apache Avro. Avro supports binary/json serialization, schema evolution , logical types (e.g. timestamp) and other cool st

So basically it's Amazon's version of Apache Avro. Avro supports binary/json serialization, schema evolution , logical types (e.g. timestamp) and other cool stuff. https://avro.apache.org/docs/current/spec.html https://avro.apache.org/docs/current/spec.html

joshka 5y ago
Avro didn't exist when Ion started development.
whimsicalism 5y ago
... or thrift ... or protobuf https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
fnord77 5y ago
I wanted to see what the differences are between Ion and Avro. Unlike avro, ion doesn't require a schema.