FlatBuffers VS Boost.Serialization

Compare FlatBuffers vs Boost.Serialization and see what are their differences.

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FlatBuffers Boost.Serialization
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21,900 117
1.1% 2.6%
8.8 7.2
10 days ago 5 days ago
C++ C++
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.

Boost.Serialization

Posts with mentions or reviews of Boost.Serialization. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FlatBuffers and Boost.Serialization 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]

cereal - A C++11 library for serialization

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

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

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

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.