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Add VPack to Comparison of data serialization formats on Wikipedia #7

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Simran-B opened this issue Feb 17, 2016 · 2 comments
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It deserves to be mentioned here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_data_serialization_formats

@neunhoef: Please validate below template and fill in the gaps (IDL/API/zero-copy)

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| [[VelocyPack]]
| [[ArangoDB]]
| {{n/a}}
| {{no}}
| [https://github.com/arangodb/velocypack/blob/master/VelocyPack.md VelocyPack (VPack) Version 1 Specification]
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| {{partial}}{{ref|vpack1refs|g}}
| {{?Schema-Interface description language?}}
| {{?Standard APIs?}}
| {{?Supports Zero-copy operations?}}

And the note regarding references, to be added below the table and the other notes:

*g. {{note|vpack1refs}}VelocyPack offers a value type to store pointers to other VPack items. It is allowed if the VPack data resides in memory, but not if stored on disk or sent over a network.
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Everything you have put there is OK, as far as I see.
So far, there is no Schema-Interface description language.
So far, there are no standard APIs, only a reference implementation. However, other formats say "yes for C++, etc. " here. We might as well say "C++ API reference implementation".
For zero-copy operations, we simply say yes. Not entirely sure what they mean there.

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Simran-B commented Feb 18, 2016

Done. Also added VPack to the table a little further down (a bit wonky):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_data_serialization_formats#Comparison_of_binary_formats

I believe small integers are not zero-copy, because they need to be loaded into a buffer in order to subtract 0x29 or 0x39 respectively to get the actual value.

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