gogoprotobuf VS cbor

Compare gogoprotobuf vs cbor and see what are their differences.

cbor

CBOR codec (RFC 8949) with CBOR tags, Go struct tags (toarray, keyasint, omitempty), float64/32/16, big.Int, and fuzz tested billions of execs. (by fxamacker)
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gogoprotobuf cbor
8 4
5,629 659
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0.0 8.6
9 months ago 1 day ago
Go Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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gogoprotobuf

Posts with mentions or reviews of gogoprotobuf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-08.
  • Why Does gRPC Insist on Trailers?
    3 projects | /r/programming | 8 Aug 2022
    That probably won't happen either, because the Google gRPC team is also quite resistant to any kind of change (that isn't driven by internal needs at Google). Projects like GoGo Protobuf had to be developed to fill gaps that the Google team refused to fill or accept PRs for.
  • Anyone needs a (long-term) contributor for their open source project written in Go?
    11 projects | /r/golang | 30 May 2022
    the gogo protobuf compiler toolchain is looking for a maintainer https://github.com/gogo/protobuf u/MehdiHK
  • Distributed IM Service in Golang
    13 projects | dev.to | 19 Apr 2022
    protobuff : Google's binary data transfer protocol
  • Crowdstrike releases replacement for Gogo/protobuf
    1 project | /r/golang | 6 Apr 2022
    Looks like Crowdstrike just pushed out publicly a replacement for gogo/proto. It looks like the library solves 2 problems:
  • 2022-01-11 gRPC benchmark results
    4 projects | /r/golang | 12 Jan 2022
    Seems like we're pretty middle of the road. I can only guess as to why but it probably has to do with heavy usage of pointers and reflection. Gogo/protobuf solved this performance with code generation, but the go protobuf implementation has essentially eschewed it. I do wonder how the benchmark would look using the new vitess proto library for Go (which has many of the benefits of gogo but with active development and an API built on top of the Google one)
  • Go-generated protobufs with map[string]interface{}
    2 projects | /r/golang | 10 Jan 2022
    Yeah, it's a pretty thick Makefile and set of shell scripts, but it's seemingly using things like: k8s.io/code-generator/cmd/go-to-protobuf and github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogo and github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogofast which from what I can tell... [it looks like this can probably help me a bit in understanding how to make custom types](https://cloud.redhat.com/blog/kubernetes-deep-dive-code-generation-customresources).
  • 🐱‍👓 PowerProto: One-click installation and version control of gRPC toolchain (protoc, protoc-gen-go)
    3 projects | /r/golang | 23 Jul 2021
    repositories: # Definition depends on the 27156597fdf4fb77004434d4409154a230dc9a32 version of https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis # and defines its name as GOOGLE_APIS # It can be referenced in importPaths by $GOOGLE_APIS GOOGLE_APIS: https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis@27156597fdf4fb77004434d4409154a230dc9a32 # Definition depends on the 226206f39bd7276e88ec684ea0028c18ec2c91ae version of https://github.com/gogo/protobuf # and defines its name as GOGO_PROTOBUF # It can be referenced in the importPaths by $GOGO_PROTOBUF GOGO_PROTOBUF: https://github.com/gogo/protobuf@226206f39bd7276e88ec684ea0028c18ec2c91ae
  • Обережно кодогенерація
    3 projects | dev.to | 21 Sep 2020
    В проекті ми використовуємо офіційну бібліотеку Protobuf github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf, яка підчас серіалізації використовує рефлексію і будує слайс байтів через append. А потім я дізнався про "Protocol Buffers for Go with Gadgets" github.com/gogo/protobuf, бібліотеку-fork яка генерує додатковий код щоб прибрати рефексію підчас серіалізації і вже записує в слайс байтів по індексу бо так швидше. Коли змінював одну бібліотеку на іншу то важливим вважав що стало працювати швидше і написані раніше тести пройшли успішно. І все б було гаразд але в проекті існувала латка яка через пару тижнів після заміни перезапустила мікросервіс через паніку:

cbor

Posts with mentions or reviews of cbor. 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

  • What is the fastest way to encode the arbitrary struct into bytes?
    4 projects | /r/golang | 2 Mar 2023
    Ha, no suggestions for cbor https://github.com/fxamacker/cbor
  • How can we umarshal a Big JSON effectively?
    4 projects | /r/golang | 16 Nov 2022
  • 80x improvements in caching by moving from JSON to gob
    6 projects | /r/golang | 11 Apr 2022
    If you need to support non-Go code I suggest you explore CBOR. There are a few implementations in Go but his is my favorite.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gogoprotobuf and cbor you can also consider the following projects:

asn1

colfer - binary serialization format

goprotobuf - Go support for Google's protocol buffers

go-capnproto - Cap'n Proto library and parser for go. This is go-capnproto-1.0, and does not have rpc. See https://github.com/zombiezen/go-capnproto2 for 2.0 which has rpc and capabilities.

easyjson - Fast JSON serializer for golang.

go-codec - idiomatic codec and rpc lib for msgpack, cbor, json, etc. msgpack.org[Go]

mapstructure - Go library for decoding generic map values into native Go structures and vice versa.

jsoniter - A high-performance 100% compatible drop-in replacement of "encoding/json"

fwencoder - Fixed width file parser (encoder/decoder) in GO (golang)