## ## Serialipedia -- Meta-data related to popular serialization formats ## ## (C) Doug Hoyte and contributors ## License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ ## ## We're trying to keep this restricted to "general purpose" formats although ## that is flexible. As a rule of thumb, formats should have implementations ## in at least 2 languages. ## ## When it's fleshed out enough we'll render it into a fancy web-page, complete ## with filtering, grouping by tags, cross-referenced benchmarks, etc. ## ## Pull requests gladly accepted at: https://github.com/hoytech/serialipedia ## ## Fields: ## desc: ## Short blurb about the format, taken from the project's website, ## wikipedia, or similar. ## released: ## Date the format was first release to the public: ## YYYY, YYYY-MM, or YYYY-MM-DD ## tags: ## Free-form tags, comma-separated ## standards: ## Any documents released by official standards bodies. ## common-uses: ## Generally acknowledged common use-cases. ## urls: ## Official URLs for more information. ## notes: ## Free-form notes of interest ## json: desc: (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. released: 2001-04 tags: self-describing, human-readable standards: - ECMA-404 - RFC 7159 common-uses: - APIs urls: - http://json.org/ yaml: desc: Human friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages. released: 2001-05-15 tags: self-describing, human-readable common-uses: - Config files urls: - http://yaml.org/ asn1: desc: Standard and notation that describes rules and structures for representing, encoding, transmitting, and decoding data in telecommunications and computer networking. tags: schema, multi-encoding released: 1984 standards: - X.208 - X.608 urls: - http://www.asn1.org/ protobuf: desc: A language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data. tags: schema, google released: 2008-07-07 urls: - https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/ fix: desc: Real-time exchange of information related to the securities transactions and markets. released: 1992 tags: finance, multi-encoding urls: - http://www.fixtradingcommunity.org/ - http://www.fixtradingcommunity.org/pg/structure/tech-specs/fast-protocol - https://github.com/FIXTradingCommunity/fix-simple-binary-encoding capnproto: desc: Insanely fast data interchange format and capability-based RPC system. tags: schema, no-encode-decode-step released: 2013-02 urls: - https://capnproto.org/ qstruct: desc: A binary data serialisation format where the in-memory representation is the same as the serialized format. tags: schema, no-encode-decode-step, incomplete released: 2014-04 urls: - https://github.com/hoytech/Qstruct thrift: avro: tags: schema, apache notes: - Schema usually included in serialized data ion: tags: schema, multi-encoding, amazon cbor: tags: self-describing messagepack: tags: self-describing sereal: blinkprotocol: tags: schema, multi-encoding urls: - http://blinkprotocol.org/