jsoniter VS easyjson

Compare jsoniter vs easyjson and see what are their differences.

jsoniter

A high-performance 100% compatible drop-in replacement of "encoding/json" (by json-iterator)
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jsoniter easyjson
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13,010 4,311
1.0% 1.0%
0.0 3.6
13 days ago 2 months ago
Go Go
MIT License MIT License
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jsoniter

Posts with mentions or reviews of jsoniter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.
  • Handling high-traffic HTTP requests with JSON payloads
    5 projects | /r/golang | 7 Dec 2023
    Since most of the time would be spent decoding json, you could try to cut this time using https://github.com/bytedance/sonic or https://github.com/json-iterator/go, both are drop-in replacements for the stdlib, sonic is faster.
  • A Journey building a fast JSON parser and full JSONPath
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2023
    We all know the builtin golang JSON parser is slow.

    How about doing comparisons against other implementations?

    Like this one: https://github.com/json-iterator/go

  • Polygon: Json Database System designed to run on small servers (as low as 16MB) and still be fast and flexible.
    7 projects | /r/golang | 29 Jan 2023
    Json-iterator (https://github.com/json-iterator/go), you can replace all of encoding/json with this. It does the same thing but it's faster.
  • How can we umarshal a Big JSON effectively?
    4 projects | /r/golang | 16 Nov 2022
    Do you want to look at every field all at the same time? If not, you can pick out individual fields. There's other packages such as https://github.com/tidwall/gjson or https://github.com/json-iterator/go that let you pass in paths such as "a.b.c" to extract single fields.
  • Designing a config API for microservices applications built using Go
    4 projects | dev.to | 10 Nov 2022
    For each Go type used within the config, we generate a separate unmarshaller function. The unmarshallers use json-iterator to process the output from CUE, while tracking the path within the config to the unmarshalled value. This path tracking will allow the function to check if live overrides have been provided on that path and return the override instead.
  • What type of software do you write at your workplace?
    33 projects | /r/golang | 17 Jan 2022
    https://github.com/json-iterator/go an alternative JSON encoding package which allows to stream (flush out) encoded data as soon as it's able to (which is in contrast with the stock package which buffers everything until the encoding is known to be complete and OK).
  • Some Go(lang) tips
    4 projects | dev.to | 2 Oct 2021
    What to use Easyjson is about the top of the pack and it's straightforward. The downside of efficient tools is that they use code generation to create the code required to turn your structs into json to minimise allocations. This is a manual build step which is annoying. Interestingly json-iterator also uses reflection but it's significantly faster. I suspect black magic.
  • What are your favorite packages to use?
    55 projects | /r/golang | 15 Aug 2021
    jsoniter for low level access to JSON encode and decode
  • What is the best solution to unique data in golang
    7 projects | /r/golang | 5 Aug 2021
    I think you have to parse the json, if you dont know exactly what you are looking for and want some validation und prevent manual parsing errors. For parsing big json files it is recommend to read and decode it as stream. Here is an example. If you have serious performance criteria take a look at jsoniter. It can be used as 1 to 1 replacement for standard library.
    7 projects | /r/golang | 5 Aug 2021
    Takes like 10 minutes to write and parses very efficiently. https://github.com/json-iterator/go looks like it can provide such simple parsing

easyjson

Posts with mentions or reviews of easyjson. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-10.
  • Google's Go may add telemetry reporting that's on by default
    9 projects | /r/golang | 10 Feb 2023
    Compile time means you catch issues at... well compile time. It also means that the code is optimized. You can look at the performance different between encoding/json and easyjson for why you may desire that.
  • JSON encoder/decoder supporting omitempty on structs
    2 projects | /r/golang | 9 Feb 2023
  • TinyGo Reflection?
    4 projects | /r/golang | 6 Dec 2022
  • Wasm difficulties in Rust, Haskell, and Go
    9 projects | dev.to | 30 Nov 2022
    easyjson produced an empty file
  • Using a json lib other than encoding/json
    2 projects | /r/golang | 23 Mar 2022
    There is https://github.com/mailru/easyjson out there if you are absolutely sure that serialization is the bottleneck. Otherwise I'd go for stdlib.
  • What type of software do you write at your workplace?
    33 projects | /r/golang | 17 Jan 2022
    https://github.com/mailru/easyjson fast JSON (de)serializer which go generates code instead of using reflect at runtime.
  • Whats the fastest JSON unmarshaling package as of right now?
    4 projects | /r/golang | 2 Nov 2021
    If you know the schema of the JSON ahead of time and you need to parse the whole object, I would recommend https://github.com/mailru/easyjson as that will likely give you the fastest result. This works in almost all use cases, and easy to use features such as string interning can save you a lot of time on memory allocation if you parse a lot of JSON objects with identical values.
  • Some Go(lang) tips
    4 projects | dev.to | 2 Oct 2021
    What to use Easyjson is about the top of the pack and it's straightforward. The downside of efficient tools is that they use code generation to create the code required to turn your structs into json to minimise allocations. This is a manual build step which is annoying. Interestingly json-iterator also uses reflection but it's significantly faster. I suspect black magic.
  • Обережно кодогенерація
    3 projects | dev.to | 21 Sep 2020
    Бібліотека easyjson теж для серіалізації працює через додатковий код замість використання рефлексії. Але після внесення в easyjson одної з оптимізацій, час від часу почали отримувати зламаний JSON, ось приклад тесту який покаже помилку.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing jsoniter and easyjson you can also consider the following projects:

go-json - Fast JSON encoder/decoder compatible with encoding/json for Go

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

fastjson - Fast JSON parser and validator for Go. No custom structs, no code generation, no reflection

goprotobuf - Go support for Google's protocol buffers

GJSON - Get JSON values quickly - JSON parser for Go

compare-go-json - A comparison of several go JSON packages.

gogoprotobuf - [Deprecated] Protocol Buffers for Go with Gadgets

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

go-serializer - :loop: Serialize any custom type or convert any content to []byte or string, for Go Programming Language

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.

simdjson-go - Golang port of simdjson: parsing gigabytes of JSON per second