There is at least one API incompatibility, which I learned when using Voldemort.
https://github.com/voldemort/voldemort/pull/137 And from memory, there was a bug when using enum with 1.4 but I can't remember exactly what. Bertrand Bertrand Dechoux On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Arvind Kalyan <bas...@gmail.com> wrote: > As far as compatibility goes, the serialized format is 100% compatible. We > are actually using 1.4.1 to serialize and 1.7.5 to deserialize and it has > been working without surprises so far. > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We are on Avro 1.4.0 and plan to upgrade to Avro 1.7.5. Is the binary >> encoding 100% compatible btw the 2 versions? Also, I did some perf testing >> and it seems that on average, 1.7.5 is about 6% faster on encoding and >> 20% slower on decoding compared with 1.4.0. Is the degradation on decoding >> performance expected (though the absolute decoding time is much smaller, >> typically 1/3 of the encoding time)? Finally, are there enough critical bug >> fixes/improvements to motivate such an upgrade? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jun >> > > > > -- > Arvind Kalyan > http://www.linkedin.com/in/base16 > cell: (408) 761-2030 >
