Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Protobuf

Protobuf

Protocol buffers are a language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.

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Application Server Code Collaboration Configuration Management Databases Developer Tools Development Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy Mobile Apps Productivity Software Development Web And Application Servers Web Servers

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The top open-source alternatives to Protobuf are gRPC, Messagepack, and Apache Thrift. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

gRPC Landing Page
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gRPC

Application and Data, Languages & Frameworks, Remote Procedure Call (RPC), and Service Discovery
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Servers #Web And Application Servers #Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy 88 social mentions
Messagepack Landing Page
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Messagepack

An efficient binary serialization format.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Software Development #Mobile Apps 13 social mentions
Apache Thrift Landing Page
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Apache Thrift

An interface definition language and communication protocol for creating cross-language services.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Servers #Web And Application Servers #Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy 12 social mentions
TOML Landing Page
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TOML

TOML - Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Software Development #Mobile Apps 11 social mentions
YAML Landing Page
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YAML

YAML 1.2 --- YAML: YAML Ain't Markup Language
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Software Development #Mobile Apps 36 social mentions
JSON Landing Page
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JSON

(JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Databases #NoSQL Databases #Software Development 13 social mentions
Dhall Configuration Language Landing Page
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Dhall Configuration Language

A non-repetitive alternative to YAML
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Software Development #Productivity 83 social mentions
Jsonnet Landing Page
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Jsonnet

A powerful DSL for elegant description of JSON data.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Software Development #Mobile Apps 32 social mentions
Eureka Landing Page
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Eureka

Eureka is a contact center and enterprise performance through speech analytics that immediately reveals insights from automated analysis of communications including calls, chat, email, texts, social media, surveys and more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Servers #Web And Application Servers #Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy
Protocol Buffers Landing Page
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Protocol Buffers

A method for serializing and interchanging structured data.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Software Development #Mobile Apps 17 social mentions
Docker Hub Landing Page
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Docker Hub

Docker Hub is a cloud-based registry service
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Code Collaboration #Git 309 social mentions
Apache ZooKeeper Landing Page
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Apache ZooKeeper

Apache ZooKeeper is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source server which enables highly reliable distributed coordination.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 29 social mentions