JSON is quite verbose. Google introduced protocol buffers many years ago, and one of the the key features was to reduce the number of bytes that need to go "over the wire". Newer attempts to optimize for bigdata use formats like those available in parquet (parquet.apache.org). There are even now…

Is JSON too verbose for high performance

iamthealex (Alex) November 13, 2015, 9:07pm 7

@jillesvangurp
Thanks for all the replies.
The project is new and I'm not concerned about performance yet.
I did appreciate the answer I got; I now understand better what is going on "underneath the covers".

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Is JSON too verbose for high performance

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