Data Format Avro - keshavbaweja-git/guides GitHub Wiki

  • Data serialization system
  • Compact, fast, binary data format
  • Self describing data with embedded schema
  • Code generation is optional, simple integration with dynamic languages
  • Code generation does offer better type safety with statically typed languages
  • With embedded schema, considerably less type information needs to be encoded with data, resulting in smaller serialization size
  • Schema is defined in JSON format