Performant Entity Serialization: BSON vs MessagePack (vs JSON)
// 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