Data Format
Data Format on the APIs.io network is a curated area collecting 0 resources — specifications, tools, and documentation — for this subject.
Providers on the network working in this area include Protocol Buffers, Apache Avro, JSON, and Apache Parquet — each links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
About this area
Data Format covers the syntactic conventions used to represent, exchange, and persist information. The landscape spans text formats (JSON, XML, YAML, CSV, TOML), binary formats (Protocol Buffers, Avro, Parquet, ORC, MessagePack, BSON, CBOR, Arrow), and schema languages and IDLs that govern how those formats are validated and evolved.
Related providers (4)
Network providers tagged for this area.
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Protocol Buffers | Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) is Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data. It defines a schema language for specifying mes... | 1 | thin |
| Apache Avro | Apache Avro is a data serialization system that provides rich data structures, a compact binary format, and container files for storing persistent data. Avro uses JSON for defin... | 1 | thin |
| JSON | JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight, text-based, language-independent data interchange format that uses human-readable text to represent structured data as key-va... | 1 | minimal |
| Apache Parquet | APIs and tools for working with Apache Parquet, the open source columnar storage format for efficient analytics workloads. This index covers the format specification along with ... | 6 | minimal |
Tags: Binary Formats, Data Format, Data Serialization, Interchange, Text Formats.
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