My question is if FlatBuffers is much faster than Protobuf, why isn't it more widely used compared to Protobuf? It used to be an experimental thing but it seems to be mature enough now but isn't w...

I decided to figure out which of Protobuf, Flatbuffers and Cap'n proto would be the best/fastest serialization for my application. In my case sending some kind of byte/char array over a network (th...

Please help to suggest some merits and demerits of Flatbuffers and CBOR protocols. Both these binary formats claim to be good on their websites, but I am not able to make some good differences betw...

What is the standard way to use gRPC and protocol buffer to transfer file or images from one process to another? The file is from 1MB to 6MB. Basically I want to know how to implement sender / rec...

I have a large list of objects that I need to store and retrieve later. The list will always be used as a unit and list items are not retrieved individually. The list contains about 7000 items tota...

We are currently looking for RPC frameworks and were unable to find any with signal functionality unfortunately however we need it. We looked at gRPC, Apache Thrift, Cap-n-Proto and found that no o...

Consider a Cap'n'Proto schema like this: struct Document { header @0 : Header; records @1 :List(Record); // usually large number of records. footer @2 :Footer; } struct Header { numberOfRecords...

The example way to send messages using Cap'n Proto needs a file descriptor to write to: ::capnp::writeMessageToFd(fd, message); But in ZMQ the message needs to be passed to a ZMQ function: zm...