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Salar.Bois is a compact, fast and powerful binary serializer for .NET Framework. With Bois you can serialize your existing objects with almost no change.

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Salar.Bois is the most compact, extermly fast binary serializer for .Net Standard, .NET Code and .NET Framework.

  • No compression is done, the high compact ratio is the result of Bois format.
  • No configuration.
  • No change to your classes.
  • Compression is provided as a seperate package.

Why Salar.Bois?

  • Because payload size matters. Bois serializer generates the smallest payload size.
  • Because speed matters. Both serialization and deserialization are extremely fast.
  • Easy to use, Serialize<T> and Deserialize<T> are all you need.
  • No configuration required. No separate schema required.
PM> Install-Package Salar.Bois

LZ4 Compression wrapper package

PM> Install-Package Salar.Bois.LZ4

Minimum frameworks supported are .Net Core 2.0, .Net Standard 2.1 and .Net Framework 4.5

Getting Started:

It is easy to use , just add the package to your project and voila, you can now use it.

All you need to do is to call Serialize method.

BoisSerializer.Initialize<Person>();
var boisSerializer = new BoisSerializer();

using (var mem = new MemoryStream())
{
	boisSerializer.Serialize(personInstance, mem);

	return mem.ToArray();
}

Note: Calling BoisSerializer.Initialize is not required at all, but if the performance of application is important to you, it is better to do it at the begining of your application.

Here is the complete example:

public class Project
{
	public int ID { get; set; }
	public string Name { get; set; }
	public string Description { get; set; }
	public string ProjectUrl { get; set; }
	public Version Version { get; set; }
}

class Program
{
	static void Main()
	{
		// Initialize is optional, but recommended for better performance
		BoisSerializer.Initialize<Project>();

		var projectInstance = new Project()
		{
			ID = 1,
			Name = "Salar.Bois",
			ProjectUrl = "https://github.com/salarcode/Bois",
			Version = new Version(3, 0, 0, 0),
			Description = "Salar.Bois is a compact, fast and powerful binary serializer for .NET Framework."
		};

		var boisSerializer = new BoisSerializer();

		using (var file = new FileStream("output.data", FileMode.Create))
		{
			boisSerializer.Serialize(projectInstance, file);
		}

		// All done.

		// ...
		// if you want to have more compression using LZ4 wrapper

		var boisLz4Serializer = new BoisLz4Serializer();

		using (var file = new FileStream("output-compressed.data", FileMode.Create))
		{
			boisLz4Serializer.Pickle(projectInstance, file);
		}

	}
}

How to deserialize an object:

var boisSerializer = new BoisSerializer();
return boisSerializer.Deserialize<Project>(dataStream);

// and the compressed data
var boisLz4Serializer = new BoisLz4Serializer();
return boisLz4Serializer.Unpickle<Project>(dataStream);

Defining objects

Nothing special is really required. Just these small easy rules.

  • Having parameter-less public constructor.
  • Collections/Lists should be generic and implement one of ICollection<>, IList<> or IDictionary<>

Compression

The BoisLz4Serializer class is in a separate package called Salar.Bois.LZ4. It is provided for anyone looking for more compact serialization. To use it just create a new instance of BoisLz4Serializer and to serialize and compress the objects call Pickle and to deserialize and uncompress call Unpickle. Please note that BoisLz4Serializer -for now- is implemented as a wrapper around LZ4.

Bois Format

If you are interested to know how Salar.Bois has gain this amazing compact format check out its Bois format wiki page.

Bois Format Schema.

Benchmarks

The benchmarks sourcecode is available. Every elapsed time is calculated for 5000 iteration (v3.0).

Please note that in these tests no configuration required for Bois versus attributes required for Avro, Zero, MsPack and ProtoZBuff. Also Zero required the properties to be virtual.

-Serialization against: ArrayTypes with small data

Serializer Payload Size (bytes) Serialization Deserialization Format Note
Salar.Bois 58 6 ms 5 ms Binary
Salar.Bois.LZ4 59 25 ms 6 ms Binary
Microsoft.Avro 87 9 ms 10 ms Binary
MessagePack 127 4 ms 4 ms Binary
MessagePackLZ4 125 18 ms 5 ms Binary
protobuf-net 92 7 ms 12 ms Binary
BinaryFormatter 458 59 ms 48 ms Binary
ZeroFormatter 153 3 ms 1 ms Binary

-Serialization against: ArrayTypes with big data

Serializer Payload Size (bytes) Serialization Deserialization Format Note
Salar.Bois 1400 70 ms 73 ms Binary
Salar.Bois.LZ4 1342 117 ms 75 ms Binary
Microsoft.Avro 1709 89 ms 119 ms Binary
MessagePack 1951 19 ms 28 ms Binary
MessagePackLZ4 1593 57 ms 41 ms Binary
protobuf-net 2161 58 ms 79 ms Binary
BinaryFormatter 2641 52 ms 50 ms Binary
ZeroFormatter 2336 11 ms 1 ms Binary

-Serialization against: PrimitiveTypes with small data

Serializer Payload Size (bytes) Serialization Deserialization Format Note
Salar.Bois 74 3 ms 4 ms Binary
Salar.Bois.LZ4 75 19 ms 5 ms Binary
Microsoft.Avro 77 4 ms 3 ms Binary
MessagePack 161 7 ms 3 ms Binary
MessagePackLZ4 173 22 ms 3 ms Binary
protobuf-net 91 6 ms 7 ms Binary
BinaryFormatter 671 72 ms 79 ms Binary
ZeroFormatter 134 7 ms 0 ms Binary

-Serialization against: ComplexCollections with small data

Serializer Payload Size (bytes) Serialization Deserialization Format Note
Salar.Bois 82 14 ms 23 ms Binary
Salar.Bois.LZ4 81 30 ms 24 ms Binary
Microsoft.Avro - - - Binary Error
MessagePack 171 27 ms 19 ms Binary
MessagePackLZ4 153 42 ms 21 ms Binary
protobuf-net 150 17 ms 34 ms Binary
BinaryFormatter 10852 636 ms 612 ms Binary
ZeroFormatter - - - Binary Not supported

-Serialization against: ComplexCollections with big data

Serializer Payload Size (bytes) Serialization Deserialization Format Note
Salar.Bois 10414 356 ms 411 ms Binary
Salar.Bois.LZ4 7628 837 ms 483 ms Binary
Microsoft.Avro - - - Binary Error
MessagePack 11013 796 ms 301 ms Binary
MessagePackLZ4 7636 28 ms 390 ms Binary
protobuf-net 14865 7 ms 265 ms Binary
BinaryFormatter 34751 961 ms 488 ms Binary
ZeroFormatter - - - Binary Not supported

-Serialization against: ComplexContainer Collections

Serializer Payload Size (bytes) Serialization Deserialization Format Note
Salar.Bois 120 9 ms 11 ms Binary
Salar.Bois.LZ4 114 27 ms 12 ms Binary
Microsoft.Avro - - - Binary Not supported
MessagePack - - - Binary Not supported
protobuf-net 171 14 ms 24 ms Binary
BinaryFormatter 7396 379 ms 475 ms Binary
ZeroFormatter - - - Binary Not supported

-Serialization against: SpecializedCollections

Serializer Payload Size (bytes) Serialization Deserialization Format Note
Salar.Bois 28 9 ms 17 ms Binary
Salar.Bois.LZ4 29 22 ms 17 ms Binary
Microsoft.Avro - - - Binary Invalid Result
MessagePack - - - Binary Not supported
MessagePackLZ4 - - - Binary Not supported
protobuf-net - - - Binary Not supported
BinaryFormatter 2515 763 ms 285 ms Binary
ZeroFormatter - - - Binary Not supported

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