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Binary Serialization Libraries

Libraries for efficient binary encoding and decoding of structured data, enabling high‐performance, low‐overhead serialization with zero‐copy capabilities across multiple programming languages.

The Linux Foundation

by The Linux Foundation

55 projects ・ Updated 14 Mar 2025

Project
Contributors
Organizations
Software value
Protocol Buffers
10,817
2,564
$40M
jackson-databind
4,059
942
$9M
FlatBuffers
3,346
817
$9.4M
Kotlinx Serialization
2,346
578
$4.2M
protobuf.js
2,306
736
$1.2M
Go Protocol Buffers
1,719
629
$638K
Apache Avro
1,410
335
$9M
MessagePack for C#
1,352
184
$2.7M
PROST
1,079
436
$528K
Buf
1,019
407
$8.7M
Cap'n Proto
996
313
$6.1M
ts-proto
900
275
$4.9M
Gel
886
293
$12M
Kryo
805
171
$2.2M
rust-protobuf
665
281
$2.7M
Protocol Buffers JavaScript
493
170
$1.4M
MessagePack
488
201
$18K
Safetensors
481
171
$283K
MessagePack for Python
447
179
$162K
Avsc
430
120
$450K
fastavro
425
122
$661K
JLD2
404
139
$368K
Chronicle Queue
389
59
$2.1M
rkyv
380
132
$937K
JSONCONS
372
69
$10M
uPickle
363
123
$872K
Jackson Dataformats Binary
344
95
$44M
ByteString
338
115
$473K
go-codec
313
140
$4.6M
ocamlrep
296
13
$515K
JS-BSON
282
94
$7.9M
Numcodecs
266
129
$285K
rust-base64
261
116
$177K
Protostuff
247
41
$2.6M
MessagePack encoding for Golang
239
104
$193K
msgp
239
96
$1.2M
Chill
238
69
$278K
Sereal
231
66
$3.4M
Haskell Binary
181
71
$164K
TinyCBOR
179
51
$248K
cbor2
171
78
$338K
MessagePack JavaScript
162
59
$173K
msgpackr
158
53
$172K
Borsh
154
56
$488K
Chronicle Wire
154
19
$3.1M
libcbor
137
43
$388K
CBOR
132
67
$272K
Airframe
122
35
$4.6M
CBOR Codec
115
53
$969K
Multiformats
110
65
$121K
msgpack5
102
40
$428K
pbf
96
42
$70K
xxhash
75
38
$35K
Protobom
71
29
$22M
Swift Protobuf
0
0
$0
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