pbf VS protobuf

Compare pbf vs protobuf and see what are their differences.

pbf

A low-level, lightweight protocol buffers implementation in JavaScript. (by mapbox)

protobuf

Protocol Buffers for JavaScript (& TypeScript). (by protobufjs)
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pbf protobuf
4 18
763 9,638
0.9% 1.0%
0.0 4.6
over 1 year ago 15 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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pbf

Posts with mentions or reviews of pbf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-22.

protobuf

Posts with mentions or reviews of protobuf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pbf and protobuf you can also consider the following projects:

sia - Sia - Binary serialisation and deserialisation

snappy - DEPRECATED - please use https://github.com/Brooooooklyn/snappy. Nodejs bindings to Google's Snappy compression library

deno-pbf - Deno pbf port of https://github.com/mapbox/pbf

compactr - Schema based serialization made easy

osm - Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.

Vicis - Presentation and transformation layer for data output in RESTful APIs.

fast-encoding - Fast, cross-platform, small and easy-to-use base64 and hex encoding.

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

img-encode - Encode an image to sound and view it as a spectrogram - turn your images into music

TypeScript - TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

nominatim-docker - 100% working container for Nominatim

opentelemetry-proto - OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP) specification and Protobuf definitions