go_serialization_benchmarks VS sjson

Compare go_serialization_benchmarks vs sjson and see what are their differences.

go_serialization_benchmarks

Benchmarks of Go serialization methods (by alecthomas)

sjson

Set JSON values very quickly in Go (by tidwall)
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go_serialization_benchmarks

Posts with mentions or reviews of go_serialization_benchmarks. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-04.
  • Rob Pike: Gobs of data (2011)
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Dec 2023
    Someone made a benchmark of serialization libraries in go [1], and I was surprised to see gobs is one of the slowest ones, specially for decoding. I suspect part of the reason is that the API doesn't not allow reusing decoders [2]. From my explorations it seems like both JSON [3], message-pack [4] and CBOR [5] are better alternatives.

    By the way, in Go there are a like a million JSON encoders because a lot of things in the std library are not really coded for maximum performance but more for easy of usage, it seems. Perhaps this is the right balance for certain things (ex: the http library, see [6]).

    There are also a bunch of libraries that allow you to modify a JSON file "in place", without having to fully deserialize into structs (ex: GJSON/SJSON [7] [8]). This sounds very convenient and more efficient that fully de/serializing if we just need to change the data a little.

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    1: https://github.com/alecthomas/go_serialization_benchmarks

    2: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29766#issuecomment-45492...

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    3: https://github.com/goccy/go-json

    4: https://github.com/vmihailenco/msgpack

    5: https://github.com/fxamacker/cbor

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    6: https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp#faq

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    7: https://github.com/tidwall/gjson

    8: https://github.com/tidwall/sjson

  • Introducing Tempo: low latency, cross-platform, end-to-end typesafe APIs
    12 projects | /r/programming | 2 May 2023
    The bebop definition specifies fixed-width types inside a struct. The format of structs cannot be changed, but there are efficiency gains by omitting all of the indices and header data. It's useless as the root message, but it's small and fast for a benchmark.
  • mus-go - the fastest Golang serializer today
    4 projects | /r/golang | 2 May 2023
    Hey everyone! Let me introduce you to mus-go - the fastest Golang serializer today. If you look at benchmarks (https://github.com/alecthomas/go_serialization_benchmarks), you can see that it could be almost twice as fast as its closest "competitor":
  • What is the fastest way to encode the arbitrary struct into bytes?
    4 projects | /r/golang | 2 Mar 2023
    This might be of interest: https://github.com/alecthomas/go_serialization_benchmarks
  • 80x improvements in caching by moving from JSON to gob
    6 projects | /r/golang | 11 Apr 2022
  • gRPC Is Easy to Misconfigure
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2021
    The protobuf vs msgpack benchmarks are not too bad. Msgpack performs very decently.

    https://github.com/alecthomas/go_serialization_benchmarks

  • Bebop encoding in Go
    1 project | /r/golang | 23 Dec 2020
    Maybe submit a PR against https://github.com/alecthomas/go_serialization_benchmarks? That covers a ton of serialization formats already, so adding your library would be cool and avoid wheel reinvention.

sjson

Posts with mentions or reviews of sjson. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-04.
  • Rob Pike: Gobs of data (2011)
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Dec 2023
    Someone made a benchmark of serialization libraries in go [1], and I was surprised to see gobs is one of the slowest ones, specially for decoding. I suspect part of the reason is that the API doesn't not allow reusing decoders [2]. From my explorations it seems like both JSON [3], message-pack [4] and CBOR [5] are better alternatives.

    By the way, in Go there are a like a million JSON encoders because a lot of things in the std library are not really coded for maximum performance but more for easy of usage, it seems. Perhaps this is the right balance for certain things (ex: the http library, see [6]).

    There are also a bunch of libraries that allow you to modify a JSON file "in place", without having to fully deserialize into structs (ex: GJSON/SJSON [7] [8]). This sounds very convenient and more efficient that fully de/serializing if we just need to change the data a little.

    --

    1: https://github.com/alecthomas/go_serialization_benchmarks

    2: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29766#issuecomment-45492...

    --

    3: https://github.com/goccy/go-json

    4: https://github.com/vmihailenco/msgpack

    5: https://github.com/fxamacker/cbor

    --

    6: https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp#faq

    --

    7: https://github.com/tidwall/gjson

    8: https://github.com/tidwall/sjson

  • Introducing Dot: The Magical Path Manipulator for Go! (open source)
    2 projects | /r/golang | 28 Jun 2023
    A similar project: https://github.com/tidwall/sjson
  • Modification of json string without deserialisation into map/struct
    3 projects | /r/golang | 5 Jun 2023
  • Need help on appending fields to json bytes
    1 project | /r/golang | 21 Apr 2023
  • Anyone learning Go or building a side project?
    1 project | /r/golang | 29 Jun 2022
    Not sure what you need to do but there is https://github.com/tidwall/sjson for quick manipulation.
  • Small Side Project On Sunday: Small Tool To Bump The Version
    6 projects | dev.to | 15 Jun 2022
  • What are your favorite packages to use?
    55 projects | /r/golang | 15 Aug 2021
    I love https://github.com/tidwall/gjson and https://github.com/tidwall/sjson for fast and frictionless json reading and editing. It makes life so much easier for cases where you don't want to model a tree of nightmare-ish API responses, like Elasticsearch.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing go_serialization_benchmarks and sjson you can also consider the following projects:

bebop - bebop wire format in Go

GJSON - Get JSON values quickly - JSON parser for Go

encoding - Go package containing implementations of efficient encoding, decoding, and validation APIs.

sqlx - general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql

bebop - 🎷No ceremony, just code. Blazing fast, typesafe binary serialization.

dot - Dot: A powerful Go package simplifying navigation and manipulation of complex data structures via dot-separated paths. Features include insertion into struct fields, maps, arrays, slices, and channels, along with robust error handling and support for diverse map keys.

msgpack - MessagePack is an extremely efficient object serialization library. It's like JSON, but very fast and small.

Gin - Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance -- up to 40 times faster. If you need smashing performance, get yourself some Gin.

grpc-web - gRPC for Web Clients

zerolog - Zero Allocation JSON Logger

msgp - A Go code generator for MessagePack / msgpack.org[Go]

godotenv - A Go port of Ruby's dotenv library (Loads environment variables from .env files)