Perl Avro

jagan_1234 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear monks,

Given all the hoopla about Apache avro in the big data (java) community, any thoughts on perl "avro"? I pretty much exclusively program in perl and do not see interoperability with other languages as a big plus point.

Is there any benefit in terms of speed or compression that should make me consider avro? What would be other comparable perl alternatives for it (other than Json or XML)?

Thanks for your thoughtful answers.

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Re: Perl Avro by daxim (Curate) on Oct 15, 2013 at 17:59 UTC
See https://github.com/Sereal/Sereal/wiki/Sereal-Comparison-Graphs. I have collected some serialisation formats in http://stackoverflow.com/a/10684780 and would like to see a complete benchmark/comparison.	[reply]
Re: Perl Avro by Jenda (Abbot) on Oct 16, 2013 at 08:06 UTC
Why oh why does every idiot and their grandmother have to create yet another serialization format? At least those rite-of-passage templating engines that every single programmer on the Earth is required by gods' law to make tend to stay private, but this? Hey, we have a serialization toooooooooo Jenda Enoch was right! Enjoy the last years of Rome.	[reply]
Re: Perl Avro by talexb (Chancellor) on Oct 16, 2013 at 12:38 UTC
For the curious, the specification I found for Apache Avro lives here. Personally, I will never touch anything called Avro, as it reminds me of the Avro Arrow, a miracle of Canadian Engineering that scrapped by idiot politicians. Alex / talexb / Toronto Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.	[reply]
Re^2: Perl Avro by thomas895 (Deacon) on Oct 18, 2013 at 05:29 UTC
Also, don't forget the Dutch public broadcaster, the delightful AVRO. They've got some interesting programmes to look at, if you can understand Dutch, that is ;-) That's what I thought of when I first saw the post. ~Thomas~ "Excuse me for butting in, but I'm interrupt-driven..."	[reply]