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