On May 29, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Dhruv Kumar wrote: > Good discussion. While I'd like to play around with Avro some other time as > it is very interesting, I'll stick with Writables for this project because > everything else in Mahout uses them. > > Here are some benchmarking results for different serialization frameworks, > including Avro: > https://github.com/eishay/jvm-serializers/wiki
Seems to me like kyro and protostuff (not protobuff) are the big winners in that one. Avro's competitive on size, but not time. Granted, one should never read too much into benchmarks, but... Both kyro and protostuff have friendly licenses. -Grant
