i'll jump in ... why AVRO over Thrift. can you guys point me at a
comparison? (i know next to nothing about both of them)
On 06/18/2010 03:41 PM, Paul Brown wrote:
On Jun 18, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Eric Evans wrote:
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 11:00 -0700, Paul Brown wrote:
At the risk of asking about religion (but with no interest in hearing
about it), why Avro instead of something like plain-old-JSON over
HTTP?
At the risk of having this thread veer off on a very long tangent...
In a nutshell, we need a way of processing requests and responses over
the network with typed data. You could of course put something together
to do this using JSON and HTTP, but not without reimplementing another
framework like Avro or Thrift (both of which can do JSON encoding, and
both of which have an HTTP transport).
"Rich, natively-provided types" is a fair answer; I was more interested in
motivation that making a value judgement.
Cheers.
-- Paul
