Thursday, February 09, 2012

Alternatives to XML Serialization

Today, there are a lot of alternatives for XML serialization of data structures. These data interchange formats are smaller and faster than processing XML.
Most popular are Google Protocol Buffers, Thrift (from FaceBook),  Avro and MessagePack. A good article comparing these alternatives is available here -
http://www.igvita.com/2011/08/01/protocol-buffers-avro-thrift-messagepack/

Wikipedia also has an interesting article comparing various data serialization. 

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