compact binary representation of json

Question

Are there any compact binary representations of JSON out there? I know there is BSON, but even that webpage says \"in many cases is not much more efficient than JSON. In so

Answer 1

gzipping JSON data is going to get you good compression ratios with very little effort because of its universal support. Also, if you're in a browser environment, you may end up paying a greater byte cost in the size of the dependency from a new library than you would in actual payload savings.

If your data has additional constraints (such as lots of redundant field values), you may be able to optimize by looking at a different serialization protocol rather than sticking to JSON. Example: a column-based serialization such as Avro's upcoming columnar store may get you better ratios (for on-disk storage). If your payloads contain lots of constant values (such as columns that represent enums), a dictionary compression approach may be useful too.