Other Formats

Apache Avro

A compact and fast binary data format.

See also

• Specification

BSON

Short for Binary JSON. A binary data format mainly for MongoDB

See also

• Specification

• MongoDB Extended JSON

• bsondump

Cap’n Proto

A fast data interchange format.

See also

• GitHub

JSON5

A superset of JSON by including strings with multiple lines and character escapes, hexadecimal numbers, comments etc.

See also

• PyPI

HOCON

Short for Human-Optimized Config Object Notation. A JSON superset with comments, multi-line strings etc.

See also

• GitHub

• Play framework configuration file syntax and features

MessagePack

An efficient binary serialization format supported by Redis scripting.

See also

• Specification

• GitHub

SDLang

Short for Simple Declarative Language. Textually represent data in a XML-like structure.

See also

• Language Guide

• GitHub

XDR (RFC 4506)

Short for External Data Representation Standard. Useful for transferring data between different computer architectures.