I did a comparison between Thrift vs PB vs Avro about 3 years ago. at the time, Avro was faster than PB than Thrift.
Avro has schema evolution (mentioned in the kafka paper). On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Mark <static.void....@gmail.com> wrote: > I've read that LinkedIn uses Avro for their message serialization. Was > there any particular reason this was chosen say over something like Thrift > or ProtocolBuffers? Was the main motivating factor the native handling of > Avro in Hadoop?
