FlatBuffers VS MessagePack

Compare FlatBuffers vs MessagePack and see what are their differences.

MessagePack

MessagePack implementation for C and C++ / msgpack.org[C/C++] (by msgpack)
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FlatBuffers MessagePack
48 2
21,900 2,872
1.1% 0.9%
8.8 0.0
9 days ago 21 days ago
C++
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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.

MessagePack

Posts with mentions or reviews of MessagePack. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-15.

What are some alternatives?

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

Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format

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.