Protocol Buffers, Etch, Hadoop and Thrift Comparison (News from 15.04.)

This article compares some popular frameworks which are used for object serialization. Cause of versioning, small footprint and high performance these frameworks can be interesting for remote communication, too. Besides Google's Protocol Buffers and Facebook's Thrift we also compare some open source frameworks like Etch, Hadoop Avro and Hession.