FlatBuffers VS QuickBuffers

Compare FlatBuffers vs QuickBuffers and see what are their differences.

QuickBuffers

Java Protobuf implementation suitable for real-time enviroments (by HebiRobotics)
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FlatBuffers QuickBuffers
48 6
21,900 105
1.1% 5.7%
8.8 8.7
9 days ago about 2 months ago
C++ Java
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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FlatBuffers

Posts with mentions or reviews of FlatBuffers. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-28.

QuickBuffers

Posts with mentions or reviews of QuickBuffers. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-31.
  • How do you package your Swing app?
    3 projects | /r/java | 31 Mar 2023
    +1 for Conveyor. We use it for several JavaFX applications, Java CLI tools, and even bundles of native applications (e.g. a C++ protobuf compiler bundled with a GraalVM native image plugin).
  • QuickBuffers 1.1 released
    8 projects | /r/java | 10 Feb 2023
    I've spent a fair bit of time on exploring performance optimizations (for fun rather than necessity). Most use case should see a 1.5-3x speedup in encoding and a 3-4x speedup in decoding speed compared to the latest Protobuf-Java release (v3.21.12 on JDK 17). The speedup comes partly from reducing allocations, and partly from various optimizations like a fall-through switch case and a better memory layout. The JSON encoding speed is competitive with other generated implementations, but the decoding is comparatively barebones because I've never had a use case for it.
    8 projects | /r/java | 10 Feb 2023
    The project is currently still limited by a Java 8 runtime, so it's using sun.misc.Unsafe where it makes sense. The code you're looking for is in ByteUtil. It'd be impossible to be competitive with only using byte[] indexing.
    8 projects | /r/java | 10 Feb 2023
  • Any suggestions for good open source Java codebases to study(With below criteria)?
    21 projects | /r/java | 18 Nov 2022
    In case you are into serialization, I wrote MFL for working with matlab's .mat file format (focuses on providing a nice API around dynamic types), and QuickBuffers as a zero-allocation implementation for Protobuf (contains Java code generation and lots of performance tuning). Both should have a reasonable size to be interesting without being overwhelming.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FlatBuffers and QuickBuffers you can also consider the following projects:

Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format

MessagePack - MessagePack implementation for C and C++ / msgpack.org[C/C++]

MessagePack - MessagePack serializer implementation for Java / msgpack.org[Java]

Cap'n Proto - Cap'n Proto serialization/RPC system - core tools and C++ library

cereal - A C++11 library for serialization

Kryo - Java binary serialization and cloning: fast, efficient, automatic

SBE - Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) - High Performance Message Codec

Boost.Serialization - Boost.org serialization module

Apache Arrow - Apache Arrow is a multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing

Bond - Bond is a cross-platform framework for working with schematized data. It supports cross-language de/serialization and powerful generic mechanisms for efficiently manipulating data. Bond is broadly used at Microsoft in high scale services.

ArduinoJson - 📟 JSON library for Arduino and embedded C++. Simple and efficient.

protostuff - Java serialization library, proto compiler, code generator