go-codec VS cbor

Compare go-codec vs cbor and see what are their differences.

go-codec

idiomatic codec and rpc lib for msgpack, cbor, json, etc. msgpack.org[Go] (by ugorji)
Serialization go-capnproto
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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)
Serialization CBOR rfc-8949 rfc-7049 Cose Cwt Go Golang json-alternative cbor-library std-94 Codec
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go-codec

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-codec. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-30.

cbor

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  • 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 go-codec and cbor you can also consider the following projects:

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

asn1

colfer - binary serialization format

goprotobuf - Go support for Google's protocol buffers

php_session_decoder - PHP session encoder/decoder written in Go

gogoprotobuf - [Deprecated] Protocol Buffers for Go with Gadgets

csvutil - csvutil provides fast and idiomatic mapping between CSV and Go (golang) values.

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.

binstruct - Golang binary decoder for mapping data into the structure

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

go-codec vs jsoniter cbor vs asn1 go-codec vs colfer cbor vs goprotobuf go-codec vs php_session_decoder cbor vs gogoprotobuf go-codec vs csvutil cbor vs go-capnproto go-codec vs goprotobuf cbor vs jsoniter go-codec vs binstruct cbor vs fwencoder