What is Avro?
It is a row-oriented remote procedure call and data serialization framework developed within Apache's Hadoop project. It uses JSON for defining data types and protocols, and serializes data in a compact binary format.
Avro is a tool in the Serialization Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Who uses Avro?
Companies
18 companies reportedly use Avro in their tech stacks, including Engineering, Dixa, and Liferay.
Developers
120 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Avro.
Avro Integrations
Python, Java, PHP, C#, and Ruby are some of the popular tools that integrate with Avro. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Avro.
Avro's Features
- Schema Evolution
- Code Generation
- Untagged Data
- Language Support
Avro Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Avro?
JSON
JavaScript Object Notation is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language.
Protobuf
Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler.
gRPC
gRPC is a modern open source high performance RPC framework that can run in any environment. It can efficiently connect services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking...
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
