// Please note that I’m author of MessagePack. This answer may be biased. Format design Compatibility with JSON In spite of its name, BSON’s compatibility with JSON is not so good compared with MessagePack. BSON has special types like “ObjectId”, “Min key”, “UUID” or “MD5” (I think these types are required by MongoDB). These types … Read more
They both offer many of the same features; however, there are some differences: Thrift supports ‘exceptions’ Protocol Buffers have much better documentation/examples Thrift has a builtin Set type Protocol Buffers allow “extensions” – you can extend an external proto to add extra fields, while still allowing external code to operate on the values. There is … Read more
Marshaling and serialization are loosely synonymous in the context of remote procedure call, but semantically different as a matter of intent. In particular, marshaling is about getting parameters from here to there, while serialization is about copying structured data to or from a primitive form such as a byte stream. In this sense, serialization is … Read more