A simple benchmark test to measure the performance of the following Node.js modules vs JSON:
$ node benchmark.js
no binary buffers msgpack.pack: 446.188ms
no binary buffers msgpack.unpack: 347.430ms
no binary buffers msgpack-js.encode: 675.531ms
no binary buffers msgpack-js.decode: 298.495ms
no binary buffers pson.encode: 1208.759ms
no binary buffers pson.decode: 276.973ms
no binary buffers avsc.toBuffer: 57.868ms // See [1].
no binary buffers avsc.fromBuffer: 20.666ms
no binary buffers JSON.stringify: 93.410ms
no binary buffers JSON.parse: 93.165ms
no binary buffers msgpack5.encode: 22254.455ms
no binary buffers msgpack5.decode: 12134.576ms
---
with binary buffers msgpack.pack: 498.184ms
with binary buffers msgpack.unpack: 541.152ms
with binary buffers msgpack-js.encode: 878.312ms
with binary buffers msgpack-js.decode: 420.872ms
with binary buffers pson.encode: 1596.219ms
with binary buffers pson.decode: 393.904ms
with binary buffers avsc.toBuffer: 85.295ms
with binary buffers avsc.fromBuffer: 75.181ms
with binary buffers JSON.stringify: 5620.344ms // See [2].
with binary buffers JSON.parse: 788.695ms
with binary buffers msgpack5.encode: 33868.102ms
with binary buffers msgpack5.decode: 11560.702ms
Notes:
avscexpects the data's structure to be defined upfront using an Avro schema. See here for examples and more information.- JSON encoding binary buffers is not relevant as binary data should be encoded manually in another format. For completeness however, this has been left in.
We ran this simple benchmark test whilst reviewing Node.js encoding options at Ably Real-time Messaging