MessagePack Alternatives

MessagePack is described as 'efficient binary serialization specification that lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON but quicker and with a lower overhead' and is an app. There are six alternatives to MessagePack for Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Android. The best alternative is TOML, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MessagePack are YAML, Protocol Buffers, Apache Thrift and Avro.

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MessagePack

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TOML
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6 alternatives to TOML
TOML aims to be a minimal configuration file format that's easy to read due to obvious semantics. TOML is designed to map unambiguously to a hash table. TOML should be easy to parse into data structures in a wide variety of languages.
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1. Support for MarkDownTOML supports MarkDown for document formatting.
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YAML
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YAML 1.2

YAML: YAML Ain't Markup Language

What It Is: YAML is a human friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages.
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1. Support for MarkDownYAML supports MarkDown for document formatting.
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Protocol Buffers
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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...

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Apache Thrift
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The Apache Thrift software framework, for scalable cross-language services development, combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa...
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Avro
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Apache Avro™ is a data serialization system. Avro provides: A compact, fast, binary data format. A container file, to store persistent data. Remote procedure call (RPC).
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Eno
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The eno notation language is a plain-text data format designed for file-based content. The language itself is very simple but expressive enough to be able to handle massive databases, while libraries are available across multiple languages including JavaScript, Python, Ruby and...

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TOML

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YAML

YAML 1.2

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Protocol Buffers

Apache Thrift

Apache Thrift Features

Avro

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