Re: [infinispan-dev] data interoperability and remote querying
On Apr 10, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel(a)hibernate.org> wrote:
>> I'm not sure JSON should be the format though. As you
said it's quite
>> verbose and string is not exactly the most efficient way to process
>> data.
>
> What would that format be, then?
Good question :) BSON is not necessarily smaller than JSON, it is meant
to be more parseable afair. I did use Avro in Hibernate Search as I find
ProtBuffer and the others too rigid for my needs to pass arbitrary
datasets. But if we have a schema and expect a given object type, then
we can start saving space a lot.
Actually, I would suspect that the JSON compresses much smaller than the size of the BSON.
The advantage of BSON, however, is the additional types that are supported, including
binary, timestamps, etc.