What is MessagePack?
It is an efficient binary serialization format. It lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON. But it's faster and smaller. Small integers are encoded into a single byte, and typical short strings require only one extra byte in addition to the strings themselves.
MessagePack is a tool in the Serialization Frameworks category of a tech stack.
MessagePack is an open source tool with 7K GitHub stars and 522 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to MessagePack's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses MessagePack?
Companies
3 companies reportedly use MessagePack in their tech stacks, including Alibaba Travels, Net Power & Light, and Keymantics.
Developers
21 developers on StackShare have stated that they use MessagePack.
Pros of MessagePack
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MessagePack's Features
- Binary serialization format
- Exchange data among multiple languages
- Faster and smaller
MessagePack Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to MessagePack?
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.
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.
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...
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
