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Avro vs MessagePack: What are the differences?
Avro: A data serialization framework *. 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; *MessagePack:** A binary serialization format. 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.
Avro and MessagePack belong to "Serialization Frameworks" category of the tech stack.
MessagePack is an open source tool with 4.71K GitHub stars and 426 GitHub forks. Here's a link to MessagePack's open source repository on GitHub.
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