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The aim of this paper is to compare the formats and libraries used for serialization and deserialization of data, typically with RESTful web services, in terms of the processing time and size of the output data. The formats tested include XML, JSON, MessagePack, Avro, Protocol Buffers, and native serialization of each of the tested programming languages. Serialization and deserialization is tested in PHP, Java and JavaScript using 49 different official and third party libraries. The benchmark is fully open-sourced and automated, thus easily repeatable and extensible. The testing environment is designed to be isolated from the rest of the operating system using Docker containers having zero performance penalty in contrast to virtualization. The results show huge differences in processing time among libraries. Considering the output data size, binary formats with predefined schema, such as Avro and Protocol Buffers, provide the best efficiency.
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The authors of this paper would like to thank Tereza Krizova for proofreading. This work and the contribution were also supported by a project of Students Grant Agency—FIM, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. Jan Vanura is a student member of the research team. The author would like to thank Jan Budina, a Ph.D. student at the University of Hradec Kralove, for testing and technical support.
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Vanura, J., Kriz, P. (2018). Perfomance Evaluation of Java, JavaScript and PHP Serialization Libraries for XML, JSON and Binary Formats. In: Ferreira, J., Spanoudakis, G., Ma, Y., Zhang, LJ. (eds) Services Computing – SCC 2018. SCC 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10969. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94376-3_11
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