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What is Avro?

It is a row-oriented remote procedure call and data serialization framework developed within Apache's Hadoop project. It uses JSON for defining data types and protocols, and serializes data in a compact binary format.
Avro is a tool in the Serialization Frameworks category of a tech stack.

Who uses Avro?

Companies
18 companies reportedly use Avro in their tech stacks, including Engineering, Dixa, and Liferay.

Developers
113 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Avro.

Avro Integrations

Python, Java, PHP, C#, and Ruby are some of the popular tools that integrate with Avro. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Avro.

Avro's Features

  • Schema Evolution
  • Code Generation
  • Untagged Data
  • Language Support

Avro Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Avro?
JSON
JavaScript Object Notation is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language.
Protobuf
Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler.
gRPC
gRPC is a modern open source high performance RPC framework that can run in any environment. It can efficiently connect services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking...
Apache Thrift
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, JavaScript, Node.js, Smalltalk, OCaml and Delphi and other languages.
Serde
It is a framework for serializing and deserializing Rust data structures efficiently and generically. The ecosystem consists of data structures that know how to serialize and deserialize themselves along with data formats that know how to serialize and deserialize other things. It provides the layer by which these two groups interact with each other, allowing any supported data structure to be serialized and deserialized using any supported data format.
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Avro's Followers
176 developers follow Avro to keep up with related blogs and decisions.