+1 to what Bruno's pointed you at. I personally like Avro for its data files (schema's stored on file, and a good, splittable container for typed data records). I think speed for serde is on-par with Thrift, if not faster today. Thrift offers no optimized data container format AFAIK.
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Bruno Freudensprung <bruno.freudenspr...@temis.com> wrote: > Once new results will be available, you might be interested in: > https://github.com/eishay/jvm-serializers/wiki/ > https://github.com/eishay/jvm-serializers/wiki/Staging-Results > > My2cts, > > Bruno. > > Le 16/07/2012 22:49, Mike S a écrit : > >> Strictly from speed and performance perspective, is Avro as fast as >> protocol buffer? >> > -- Harsh J