Files
json/docs/mkdocs/docs/features/binary_formats/index.md
Niels Lohmann 6a7392058e Complete documentation for 3.11.0 (#3464)
* 👥 update contributor and sponsor list

* 🚧 document BJData format

* 🚧 document BJData format

* 📝 clarified documentation of [json.exception.parse_error.112]

* ✏️ adjust titles

* 📝 add more examples

* 🚨 adjust warnings for index.md files

* 📝 add more examples

* 🔥 remove example for deprecated code

* 📝 add missing enum entry

* 📝 overwork table for binary formats

*  add test to create table for binary formats

* 📝 fix wording in example

* 📝 add more examples

* Update iterators.md (#3481)

*  add check for overloads to linter #3455

* 👥 update contributor list

* 📝 add more examples

* 📝 fix documentation

* 📝 add more examples

* 🎨 fix indentation

* 🔥 remove example for destructor

* 📝 overwork documentation

* Updated BJData documentation, #3464 (#3493)

* update bjdata.md for #3464

* Minor edit

* Fix URL typo

* Add info on demoting ND array to a 1-D optimized array when singleton dimension

Co-authored-by: Chaoqi Zhang <prncoprs@163.com>
Co-authored-by: Qianqian Fang <fangqq@gmail.com>
2022-05-17 13:08:56 +02:00

2.7 KiB

Binary Formats

Though JSON is a ubiquitous data format, it is not a very compact format suitable for data exchange, for instance over a network. Hence, the library supports

to efficiently encode JSON values to byte vectors and to decode such vectors.

Comparison

Completeness

Format Serialization Deserialization
BJData complete complete
BSON incomplete: top-level value must be an object incomplete, but all JSON types are supported
CBOR complete incomplete, but all JSON types are supported
MessagePack complete complete
UBJSON complete complete

Binary values

Format Binary values Binary subtypes
BJData not supported not supported
BSON supported supported
CBOR supported supported
MessagePack supported supported
UBJSON not supported not supported

See binary values for more information.

Sizes

Format canada.json twitter.json citm_catalog.json jeopardy.json
BJData 53.2 % 91.1 % 78.1 % 96.6 %
BJData (size) 58.6 % 92.1 % 86.7 % 97.4 %
BJData (size+tyoe) 58.6 % 92.1 % 86.5 % 97.4 %
BSON 85.8 % 95.2 % 95.8 % 106.7 %
CBOR 50.5 % 86.3 % 68.4 % 88.0 %
MessagePack 50.5 % 86.0 % 68.5 % 87.9 %
UBJSON 53.2 % 91.3 % 78.2 % 96.6 %
UBJSON (size) 58.6 % 92.3 % 86.8 % 97.4 %
UBJSON (size+type) 55.9 % 92.3 % 85.0 % 95.0 %

Sizes compared to minified JSON value.