Avro Alternatives

Apps similar to Avro include Apache Thrift, which is free and open source. Other options are Ice, MessagePack, Protocol Buffers and The Melange Language Workbench. In total there are five apps like Avro for Windows, Linux, Mac, self-hosting and Android.

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  1. Thrift is a lightweight, language-independent software stack for point-to-point RPC implementation. Thrift provides clean abstractions and implementations for data transport, data serialization, and application level processing.

    8 Apache Thrift alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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    The Internet Communications Engine (Ice) is a modern distributed computing platform with support for C++, .NET, Java, Python, Objective-C, Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization specification that lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON but quicker and with a lower overhead.

    6 MessagePack alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4. Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
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  5. Melange is a language workbench that provides a modular approach for customizing, assembling and integrating multiple domain-specific language (DSL) specifications and implementations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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