Biniou
![[difficulty = 1 camel]](/mjambon2016/1camel.png "difficulty = 1 camel (suitable for OCaml beginners)")
Introduction
Biniou (pronounced "be new") is a binary data format designed for speed, safety, ease of use and backward compatibility as protocols evolve. Biniou is vastly equivalent to JSON in terms of functionality but allows implementations several times faster (4 times faster than yojson), with 25-35% space savings.
Biniou data can be decoded into human-readable form without knowledge of type
definitions except for field and variant names which are represented by
31-bit hashes. A program named bdump
is provided for routine visualization of biniou data files.
The program atdgen
can be used to derive OCaml-Biniou serializers and deserializers
from type definitions.
Biniou format specification
The biniou format is specified here.
Library documentation
Documentation of the biniou
library
Download
This software was written by Martin Jambon. It is distributed under a BSD license. The current version is 1.0.0; see Changes. Download it here.
The development version of Biniou is hosted on GitHub.