.. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Veit Schiele
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause

Other Formats
=============

`Apache Avro <https://avro.apache.org/>`_
    A compact and fast binary data format.

    .. seealso::

        * `Data Serialization and Deserialization
          <https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.11.1/specification/#data-serialization-and-deserialization>`__

`BSON <https://bsonspec.org>`_
    Short for *Binary JSON*. A binary data format mainly for :term:`MongoDB`

    .. seealso::

        * `Specification <https://bsonspec.org/spec.html>`__
        * `MongoDB Extended JSON
          <https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/reference/mongodb-extended-json/>`_
        * `bsondump
          <https://www.mongodb.com/docs/database-tools/bsondump/>`_

`Cap’n Proto <https://capnproto.org/>`_
    A fast data interchange format.

    .. seealso::

        * `GitHub <https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto>`__

`JSON5 <https://github.com/json5/json5>`_
    A superset of JSON by including strings with multiple lines and character
    escapes, hexadecimal numbers, comments etc.

    .. seealso::

        * `PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/json5/>`_

`HOCON <https://github.com/lightbend/config/blob/master/HOCON.md>`_
    Short for *Human-Optimized Config Object Notation*. A JSON superset with
    comments, multi-line strings etc.

    .. seealso::

        * `GitHub <https://github.com/lightbend/config/blob/master/HOCON.md>`__
        * `Play framework configuration file syntax and features
          <https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.5.x/ConfigFile>`_

`MessagePack <https://msgpack.org/index.html>`_
    An efficient binary serialization format supported by :term:`Redis`
    scripting.

    .. seealso::

        * `Specification
          <https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack/blob/master/spec.md>`__
        * `GitHub <https://github.com/msgpack>`__

`SDLang <https://sdlang.org/>`_
    Short for *Simple Declarative Language*. Textually represent data in a
    XML-like structure.

    .. seealso::

        * `Language Guide
          <https://github.com/dlang-community/SDLang-D/wiki/Language-Guide>`_
        * `GitHub <https://github.com/dlang-community/SDLang-D>`__

XDR (:rfc:`4506`)
    Short for *External Data Representation Standard*. Useful for transferring
    data between different computer architectures.