Comments on: Thrift vs. Protocol Buffers

By: Installing Thrift on Snow Leopard

Installing Thrift on Snow Leopard — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:53:08 +0000

[...] If Thrift is still very new and lacks documentation – why bother learning it? Especially when there are more mature alternatives like Google’s Protocol Buffer and SOAP. The answer depends on your requirements. I write web-based financial applications. I use PHP as my server-side scripting language, and C++ for the heavy-lifting. As of this writing, Protocol Buffer does not support PHP, and the SOAP protocol has too much overhead for the high-speed finance world. Furthermore, I think Thrift has more potential than both alternatives and will gain in popularity as more people learn it. Also apparently Thrift was developed by Google engineers working at Facebook who missed using Protocol Buffer, so they re-built it and expanded its feature set. You can find more information on the differences between Thrift and Protocol Buffer at: http://stuartsierra.com/2008/07/10/thrift-vs-protocol-buffers. [...]

By: Thrift and Protocol Buffers performance in Java – Tim[后端技术]

Thrift and Protocol Buffers performance in Java – Tim[后端技术] — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:55:43 +0000

[...] There is another Thrift vs. Protocol Buffers compare non-performance [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:51:05 +0000

Check this out: http://code.google.com/p/thrift-protobuf-compare/wiki/Benchmarking

By: Thrift vs Protocol Bufffers vs JSON | MirthLab

Thrift vs Protocol Bufffers vs JSON | MirthLab — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:37:23 +0000

[...] of this table was originally compiled by Stuart Sierra but has been edited to include additional information relevant to my own [...]

By: timyang

timyang — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:03:35 +0000

I have compared thrift and protobuf serialization performance in Java, thrift is 1.2-2 times faster than protobuf.

http://timyang.net/programming/thrift-protocol-buffers-performance-java/

By: Stuart

Stuart — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:31:31 +0000

“The license information is swapped in the table.”

Fixed. Thanks, Jacob.

By: Jacob Grydholt

Jacob Grydholt — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:25:30 +0000

The license information is swapped in the table. Thrift is Apache while protobuffers are BSD.

By: Michael Greene

Michael Greene — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:49:40 +0000

David: Unfortunately, since Thrift has not made an Apache release yet and is in incubation at Apache, the project members are unable to provide official binaries that get distributed. If you had said something on the mailing list, I could have sent you binaries if you’re having difficulty getting up and running. Otherwise, http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/ThriftInstallationWin32 does a decent job of describing how to get going, but could probably be improved.

By: David Marcus

David Marcus — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:42:31 +0000

I would offer that the Thrift community is lacking an official site where a newcomer (to Thrift) can download a running Thrift compiler for their system.

I very much want to try Thrift. I’ve been looking for a ready-to-run binary of the compiler and C# generators (on Windows/XP) but cannot find them anywhere. The ‘make’ scripts (as documented) are pretty useless in the Windows world.

I dare say that the barrier to entry is having to build the compiler on one’s own machine before anything else can be done. I bet most people give up and go elsewhere.

-David

By: Mark V

Mark V — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:46:01 +0000

Less mature perhaps than protcol buffers, but seems superior in important respects:

http://eigenclass.org/R2/writings/extprot-extensible-protocols-intro

HTH?