Protobuf 和 Thrift对比

Protobuf 和 Thrift 简介

google protobuf 

Protocol buffers are Google’s language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages – Java, C++, or Python.

github：google/protobuf 

google developers： protocol-buffers

 

Apache Thrift

The Apache Thrift software framework, for scalable cross-language services development, combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa, JavaScript, Node.js, Smalltalk, OCaml and Delphi and other languages.

github：apache/thrift

 

protobuf,json,xml,binary,Thrift之间的对比

一条消息数据，protobuf序列化后的大小是json的10分之一，xml格式的20分之一，是二进制序列化的10分之一，总体看来ProtoBuf的优势还是很明显的。

protobuf是google提供的一个开源序列化框架，类似于XML，JSON这样的数据表示语言。

protobuf在google中是一个比较核心的基础库，作为分布式运算涉及到大量的不同业务消息的传递，如何高效简洁的表示、操作这些业务消息在google这样的大规模应用中是至关重要的。而protobuf这样的库正好是在效率、数据大小、易用性之间取得了很好的平衡。