What are the key differences between Apache Thrift, Google Protocol Buffers, MessagePack, ASN.1 and Apache Avro?

Question

All of these provide binary serialization, RPC frameworks and IDL. I\'m interested in key differences between them and characteristics (performance, ease of use, programming

Answer 1

Microsoft's Bond (https://github.com/Microsoft/bond) is very impressive with performance, functionalities and documentation. However it does not support many target platforms as of now ( 13th feb 2015 ). I can only assume it is because it is very new. currently it supports python, c# and c++ . It's being used by MS everywhere. I tried it, to me as a c# developer using bond is better than using protobuf, however I have used thrift as well, the only problem I faced was with the documentation, I had to try many things to understand how things are done.

Few resources on Bond are as follows ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8866694 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8866848 , https://microsoft.github.io/bond/why_bond.html )