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Testing MsgPack and BSON

• nly 13y ago
  > we decided to test BSON and MessagePack due to their closeness to JSON Then I'm surprised you overlooked Thrift so quickly given that it has several binary and a JSON encoding. There's also an official Go implementation in tree, and you get the comfort of a protobuf-like schema format (which with code-gen means you don't have to rewrite a bunch of code if you want to use it across languages). Other nice options: Apache Avro (no code gen, json schemas, very dense encoding) and Cap'n Proto
  • zhenjl 13y ago
    Good points. Both thrift and protobuf (and Avro) seemed heavy weight due to their requirements. We wanted something lightweight, thus BSON and MsgPack. In terms of rewriting a bunch of code, msgpack and bson both easily marshall/unmarshall in just a few lines of code so not a lot of rewriting. Libraries exist for all types of languages. Maybe I need to update my criteria. Thx for the comment tho.
• thdn 13y ago
  I wonder how Cap'n Proto would perform