On Apr 10, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Emmanuel Bernard <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'm not sure JSON should be the format though. As you said it's quite >>> verbose and string is not exactly the most efficient way to process >>> data. >> >> What would that format be, then? > > Good question :) BSON is not necessarily smaller than JSON, it is meant > to be more parseable afair. I did use Avro in Hibernate Search as I find > ProtBuffer and the others too rigid for my needs to pass arbitrary > datasets. But if we have a schema and expect a given object type, then > we can start saving space a lot.
Actually, I would suspect that the JSON compresses much smaller than the size of the BSON. The advantage of BSON, however, is the additional types that are supported, including binary, timestamps, etc. _______________________________________________ infinispan-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev
