Top 6 Protocol Buffers Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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.

1. Apache Thrift

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, Delphi, ActionScript and other languages.......

2. Messagepack

Messagepack MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization specification that lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON but quicker and with a lower overhead.......

3. Ice

Ice The Internet Communications Engine (Ice) is a modern distributed computing platform with support for C++, .NET, Java, Python, Objective-C, Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript. Ice is used in mission-critical projects by companies all over the world. Ice takes care of all interactions with low-level network programming interfaces and allows you to......

4. YAML

YAML YAML 1.2---YAML: YAML Ain't Markup LanguageWhat It Is: YAML is a human friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages.......

5. XML

XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format which is both human-readable and machine-readable. It is defined by the W3C's XML 1.0 Specification[2 and by several other related specifications, all of which are free open standards.The design goals......

6. JSON

JSON JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999. JSON is a text format......