Protobuf
Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format (by protocolbuffers)
MessagePack
MessagePack implementation for C and C++ / msgpack.org[C/C++] (by msgpack)
| Protobuf | MessagePack | |
|---|---|---|
| 194 | 2 | |
| 67,541 | 3,124 | |
| 0.8% | 0.6% | |
| 10.0 | 0.0 | |
| 2 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C++ | ||
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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 2025-04-03.
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Getting Started With gRPC in Golang
Install the protoc compiler manually from here and add it to your PATH.
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Ruby, Ractors, and Lock-Free Data Structures
We wanted to use Ractors in our latest Ruby project (which is Rust based using rb-sys/magnus for some parts), but since our users use Google Protobuf inside the code that may run in Ractors, we could not because the library is not Ractor safe[0] (and it's unreasonable for us to ask our users to not be able to use the official Protobuf library).
0 - https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/19321
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Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials
For Java, I think you mean Jackson, not gson, unless something has changed recently. Goes to show that even the behemoths can get this wrong.
https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/6aefdde9736...
- The Big TDD Misunderstanding (2022)
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Try Postgres Cloud
Building Neon requires 3.15+ version of protoc (protobuf-compiler). If your distribution provides an older version, you can install a newer version from here.
- Μpb: Small, Fast C Protobufs
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Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API
Best bet is likely https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/docs/f..., which predates editions.
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Understanding Protocol Buffers: A Fast Alternative to JSON
Protocol Buffers Documentation protobuf Json JSON in API Development
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Part 3: Compiling the Protos and Setting up the gRPC server
You can also download the protoc compiler from the official protobuf release page and add the path to the protoc compiler to the system environment variable.
- What's new in C++26 (part 1)
MessagePack
Posts with mentions or reviews of MessagePack.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-15.
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Serializing struct with bit-fields
I have searched extensively, and have tried a few libraries from msgpack-c (C++), to YAS, and a few more not to name.
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Binary de-/serialization
how about https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-c/tree/c_master ?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Protobuf and MessagePack you can also consider the following projects:
FlatBuffers - FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library
cereal - A C++11 library for serialization
Boost.Serialization - Boost.org serialization module
SBE - Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) - High Performance Message Codec