> There doesn’t seem to be anything that is reasonably space efficient, simple and quick to parse and text based (not binary) so you can view and edit it with a

> There doesn’t seem to be anything that is reasonably space efficient, simple and quick to parse and text based (not binary) so you can view and edit it with a standard editor. > XML and Javascript are tree structures and not suitable for efficiently storing tabular data (plus other issues). You can certainly be efficient with json(net). See: Notice how they are separate objects: {'name': 'foo', 'age': 2} {'name': 'cat, 'age': 6} You can do it very efficiently: https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson Compress it if you need compact. There's also UBF, but it never saw much traction: https://ubf.github.io/ubf/ubf-user-guide.en.html#specifications https://ubf.github.io/ubf/ubf-user-guide.en.html#specificati...