Thrift vs. Protobuf vs. Boost.Serialization vs. Msgpack vs. Cereal vs. Avro vs. HPX serialization/deserialization time test for C++.
This project does not have any external library dependencies. All (boost, thrift etc.) needed libraries are downloaded and built automatically except HPX (set HPX_DIR for latter), but you need enough free disk space to build all components. To build this project you need a compiler that supports C++11 features. Project was tested with GCC 4.9.1 (Ubuntu 14.04).
$ git clone https://github.com/thekvs/cpp-serializers.git
$ mkdir /path/to/build-root/
$ cd /path/to/build-root/
$ cmake /path/to/cpp-serializers -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DHPX_DIR=...
$ make
- Test all serializers, run each serializer 100000 times:
$ ./test 100000
- Test only protobuf serializer, run it 100000 times:
$ ./test 100000 protobuf
- Test protobuf and cereal serializers only, run each of them 100000 times:
$ ./test 100000 protobuf cereal
Following results were obtained running 1000000 serialize-deserialize operations 50 times and then averaging results on a typical desktop computer with Intel Core i5 processor running Ubuntu 14.04. Exact versions of libraries used are:
- thrift 0.9.1
- protobuf 2.6.0
- boost 1.56.0
- msgpack 0.5.9
- cereal 1.0.0
- avro 1.7.7
- hpx 0.9.11
| serializer | object's size | avg. total time |
|---|---|---|
| thrift-binary | 17017 | 28416 |
| thrift-compact | 11597 | 34301 |
| protobuf | 12571 | 30337 |
| boost | 17470 | 25062 |
| msgpack | 11902 | 29973 |
| cereal | 17416 | 13309 |
| avro | 12288 | 38225 |
| hpx | 17433 | 15847 |
| hpx_zero_copy | 33 | 860 |
Size measured in bytes, time measured in milliseconds.
