https://github.com/thekvs/cpp-serializers
Benchmark comparing various data serialization libraries (thrift, protobuf etc.) for C++
https://github.com/thekvs/cpp-serializers
apache-avro avro boost c-plus-plus capn-proto cereal cpp flatbuffers msgpack performance-testing protobuf serialization thrift yas
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Benchmark comparing various data serialization libraries (thrift, protobuf etc.) for C++
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/thekvs/cpp-serializers
- Owner: thekvs
- Created: 2013-10-02T15:15:02.000Z (over 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2020-01-28T08:57:08.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-07-31T22:44:16.991Z (11 months ago)
- Topics: apache-avro, avro, boost, c-plus-plus, capn-proto, cereal, cpp, flatbuffers, msgpack, performance-testing, protobuf, serialization, thrift, yas
- Language: C++
- Homepage:
- Size: 530 KB
- Stars: 717
- Watchers: 40
- Forks: 111
- Open Issues: 19
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# About
Compare various data serialization libraries for C++.
* [Thrift](http://thrift.apache.org/)
* [Protobuf](https://code.google.com/p/protobuf/)
* [Boost.Serialization](http://www.boost.org/libs/serialization)
* [Msgpack](http://msgpack.org/)
* [Cereal](http://uscilab.github.io/cereal/index.html)
* [Avro](http://avro.apache.org/)
* [Capnproto](https://capnproto.org/)
* [Flatbuffers](https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/)
* [YAS](https://github.com/niXman/yas)
# Build
This project does not have any external serialization libraries dependencies. All (boost, thrift etc.) needed libraries are downloaded and built automatically, but you need enough free disk space (approx. 2.3G) to build all components. To build this project you need a compiler that supports C++14 features. Project was tested with Clang and GCC compilers.
1. `git clone https://github.com/thekvs/cpp-serializers.git`
1. `cd cpp-serializers`
1. `mkdir build`
1. `cd build`
1. `cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..`
1. `cmake --build .`
# Usage
```
$ ./benchmark -h
Benchmark various C++ serializers
Usage:
benchmark [OPTION...]
-h, --help show this help and exit
-l, --list show list of supported serializers
-c, --csv output in CSV format
-i, --iterations arg number of serialize/deserialize iterations
-s, --serializers arg comma separated list of serializers to benchmark
```
* Benchmark **all** serializers, run each serializer 100000 times:
```
$ ./benchmark -i 100000
```
* Benchmark only **protobuf** serializer, run it 100000 times:
```
$ ./benchmark -i 100000 -s protobuf
```
* Benchmark **protobuf** and **cereal** serializers only, run each of them 100000 times:
```
$ ./benchmark -i 100000 -s protobuf,cereal
```
# Results
Following results were obtained running 1000000 serialize-deserialize operations 50 times and then averaging results on a typical desktop computer with Intel Core i7 processor running Ubuntu 16.04. Exact versions of libraries used are:
* thrift 0.12.0
* protobuf 3.7.0
* boost 1.69.0
* msgpack 3.1.1
* cereal 1.2.2
* avro 1.8.2
* capnproto 0.7.0
* flatbuffers 1.10.0
* YAS 7.0.2
| serializer | object's size | avg. total time |
| -------------- | ------------- | --------------- |
| thrift-binary | 17017 | 1190.22 |
| thrift-compact | 13378 | 3474.32 |
| protobuf | 16116 | 2312.78 |
| boost | 17470 | 1195.04 |
| msgpack | 13402 | 2560.6 |
| cereal | 17416 | 1052.46 |
| avro | 16384 | 4488.18 |
| yas | 17416 | 302.7 |
| yas-compact | 13321 | 2063.34 |
## Size
## Time
For capnproto and flatbuffers since they already store data in a "serialized" form and serialization basically means getting pointer to the internal storage, we measure full **build**/serialize/deserialize cycle. In the case of other libraries we measure serialize/deserialize cycle of the already built data structure.
| serializer | object's size | avg. total time |
| -------------- | ------------- | --------------- |
| capnproto | 17768 | 400.98 |
| flatbuffers | 17632 | 491.5 |
Size measured in bytes, time measured in milliseconds.