Apache Avro is an open source data serialization system that lets you send information. It is frequently associated with “big data” and distributed systems because it has some distinct advantages over the competition.
The primary advantages are listed below, but read on for more information:
- Messages are highly efficient
- Strong schema support
- Schema versioning
- Dynamic schema support
- Different, but compatible, Reader and Writer versions allowed
- Union types
- Object container files can include schema along with encoded records
- Support for serialization/deserialization with human-readable JSON
