This is a pure Julia implementation of the Apache Avro data standard. It provides convenient APIs for reading/writing data directly in the avro format, or as schema-included object container files.
The package can be installed by typing in the following in a Julia REPL:
julia> using Pkg; Pkg.add("Avro")It currently supports:
- All primitive types
- All nested/complex types
- Logical types listed in the spec (Decimal, UUID, Date, Time, Timestamps, Duration)
- Binary encoding/decoding
- Reading/writing object container files via the Tables.jl interface
- Supports the xz, zstd, deflate, and bzip2 compression codecs for object container files
Currently not supported are:
- JSON encoding/decoding of objects
- Single object encoding or schema fingerprints
- Schema resolution
- Protocol messages, calls, handshakes
- Snappy compression
Why use the avro format vs. other data formats? Some benefits include:
- Very concise binary encoding, especially object container files with compression
- Very fast reading/writing
- Objects/data must have well-defined schema
- One of the few "row-oriented" binary data formats