Apache Thrift

aid: thrift
name: Apache Thrift
description: Apache Thrift is a cross-language RPC framework originally developed at Facebook for scalable cross-language
  services development. It provides a lightweight, language-independent software stack for point-to-point RPC implementation
  with clean abstractions for data transport, serialization, and application-level processing. The framework includes an Interface
  Definition Language (IDL) compiler that generates client and server code for 28+ programming languages including C++, Java,
  Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, Node.js, C#, and many others, enabling seamless cross-language service communication.
type: Index
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tags:
- Apache
- Code Generation
- Cross Language
- Open Source
- RPC
- SDKs
- Serialization
- Thrift
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created: '2026-03-27'
modified: '2026-05-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: thrift:thrift
  name: Apache Thrift
  description: Apache Thrift is a lightweight, language-independent software stack for point-to-point RPC implementation.
    It provides abstractions for data transport, serialization, and application-level processing with a code generation engine
    that produces client and server code for 28+ programming languages from a simple Interface Definition Language (IDL) definition.
    Thrift supports backward and forward compatibility through non-atomic version changes and is widely used for building
    high-performance cross-language microservices.
  humanURL: https://thrift.apache.org/
  baseURL: https://thrift.apache.org/
  tags:
  - Apache
  - Code Generation
  - Cross Language
  - IDL
  - Open Source
  - RPC
  - SDKs
  - Serialization
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://thrift.apache.org/docs/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://thrift.apache.org/tutorial/
  - type: Download
    url: https://thrift.apache.org/download
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/apache/thrift
  - type: IDL Specification
    url: https://thrift.apache.org/docs/idl
  - type: Language Support
    url: https://thrift.apache.org/docs/Languages
  - type: npm
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/thrift
  - type: Maven
    url: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.thrift/libthrift
  - type: Packagist
    url: https://packagist.org/packages/apache/thrift
  - type: PyPI
    url: https://pypi.org/project/thrift/
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/master/CHANGES.md
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thrift/refs/heads/main/json-schema/thrift-idl-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thrift/refs/heads/main/json-structure/thrift-idl-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thrift/refs/heads/main/json-ld/thrift-context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/thrift/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/thrift-vocabulary.yml
  contact:
  - FN: Apache Thrift Developers
    url: https://thrift.apache.org/mailing
    email: dev@thrift.apache.org
  version: 0.23.0
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/thrift-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/thrift-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://thrift.apache.org/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://thrift.apache.org/docs/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/apache/thrift
- type: Mailing List
  url: https://thrift.apache.org/mailing
- type: Issue Tracker
  url: https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/THRIFT
- type: Download
  url: https://thrift.apache.org/download
- type: npm
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/thrift
- type: Maven
  url: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.thrift/libthrift
- type: PyPI
  url: https://pypi.org/project/thrift/
- type: Packagist
  url: https://packagist.org/packages/apache/thrift
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com