Defining an industrial-strength on-disk format, Binary serialization for performance and random access with 3D data
It is a high-performance serialization and RPC system best for complex, performance-critical applications.
Simple data interchange where JSON or XML is sufficient
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easy to work with, great size (esp compressed), random access, close-to-optimal parsing, extensible.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Binary serialization for performance and random access with 3D data
It's just JSON, which has up and down sides. But things like promise pipelining are such a huge upside versus everything else: you can refer to results... This is far far far superior to everything else, totally different ball-game.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Evaluating for data serialization and RPC
Depending on your needs, the right tool might be Parquet or Arrow or protobuf or Cap’n Proto or even JSON or XML or ASN.1.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Defining an industrial-strength on-disk format.
Depending on your needs, the right tool might be Parquet or Arrow or protobuf or Cap’n Proto.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Considered as a potential serialization tool among other options.
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