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Data architecture technologies for row-oriented encodings with schemas for records in motion — events, messages, and APIs.
Apache Avro
Row-oriented serialization with first-class schema evolution
Serialization Formats
Apache Avro is a compact, schema-based, row-oriented serialization format — the default encoding for Kafka pipelines and schema-registry workflows.
Protocol Buffers
Compact, typed serialization from the gRPC ecosystem
Serialization Formats
Protocol Buffers (protobuf) is Google's language-neutral, schema-first binary serialization format, ubiquitous in service APIs and increasingly present in event streams.