Serializer Comparison

Compare the usage, performance and data sizes of several Java Serialization frameworks.

Binary

• JVM native solution
• MicroStream Serializer
• Kryo
• CBOR (implemented by Jackson CBOR dataformat)
• Hessian

JSON

• Jackson
• GSON

XML

• JAXB

YAML

• snakeYAML

SQL and NoSql

• Hibernate (Only scenario 1)
• Redis

Schema based

• Protobuf

Test method

The performance is measured through the Java Microbenchmark Harness JMH library.

In each module, you can find a class containing PerformanceRun in it that executes the performance test for a certain scenario.

Scenarios

The following scenarios are tested

• Scenario1: 1 single List with a large number of objects.
• Scenario2: Serialize and deserialize many small objects
• Scenario3: Object graph with Circular dependency

Results

See confluence page https://microstream.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MSG/pages/1958674451/Serializer

TODO

Compare with specialized serializers like

• Avro