On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Nicholas Satterly <nfsatte...@gmail.com> wrote: > If we are to look at redoing the XML parsing next then the two contenders > that come to mind are gzipped JSON and Google Protocol Buffers. > > PB is meant to be very efficient and therefore faster, however it seems > people have gotten comparable results with gzipped JSON. An obvious > advantage of gzipped JSON is that it would be simple to make the output > human readable though we could easily develop a CLI tool that allowed us to > query and decode ganglia PB data for testing.
I think there are large advantages to using standard and widely adopted formats, so JSON gets my vote there. That's not to say PB isn't widely used, but I suspect there are a lot more tools and programming language bindings to read and process JSON data. Or...why not just use XDR for bulk data transport, instead of introducing a third format (XML, XDR, and JSON/PB)? I'm not hugely familiar with XDR, so apologies if I'm missing an obvious reason why it wouldn't work here. -- Jesse Becker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
