As far as compatibility goes, the serialized format is 100% compatible. We are actually using 1.4.1 to serialize and 1.7.5 to deserialize and it has been working without surprises so far.
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Jun Rao <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We are on Avro 1.4.0 and plan to upgrade to Avro 1.7.5. Is the binary > encoding 100% compatible btw the 2 versions? Also, I did some perf testing > and it seems that on average, 1.7.5 is about 6% faster on encoding and > 20% slower on decoding compared with 1.4.0. Is the degradation on decoding > performance expected (though the absolute decoding time is much smaller, > typically 1/3 of the encoding time)? Finally, are there enough critical bug > fixes/improvements to motivate such an upgrade? > > Thanks, > > Jun > -- Arvind Kalyan http://www.linkedin.com/in/base16 cell: (408) 761-2030
