A few reasons other than speed: Thrift generates the client and server code completely, including the data structures you are passing, so you don’t have to deal with anything other than writing the handlers and invoking the client. and everything, including parameters and returns are automatically validated and parsed. so you are getting sanity checks … Read more
Latest comparison available here at the thrift-protobuf-compare project wiki. It includes many other serialization libraries.
An RPC framework in general is a set of tools that enable the programmer to call a piece of code in a remote process, be it on a different machine or just another process on the same machine. In the particular case of Apache Thrift, we talk about a framework designed to be efficient, and … Read more
ASN.1 is an ISO/ISE standard. It has a very readable source language and a variety of back-ends, both binary and human-readable. Being an international standard (and an old one at that!) the source language is a bit kitchen-sinkish (in about the same way that the Atlantic Ocean is a bit wet) but it is extremely … 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