Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Messagepack

The top open-source alternatives to Messagepack are Protobuf, YAML, and JSON. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Protobuf Landing Page
1

Protobuf

Protocol buffers are a language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Software Development #Mobile Apps 82 social mentions
YAML Landing Page
2

YAML

YAML 1.2 --- YAML: YAML Ain't Markup Language
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Software Development #Mobile Apps 36 social mentions
JSON Landing Page
3

JSON

(JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Databases #NoSQL Databases #Software Development 13 social mentions
Protocol Buffers Landing Page
4

Protocol Buffers

A method for serializing and interchanging structured data.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Mobile Apps #Productivity 15 social mentions
Dhall Configuration Language Landing Page
5

Dhall Configuration Language

A non-repetitive alternative to YAML
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Software Development #Productivity 83 social mentions
Jsonnet Landing Page
6

Jsonnet

A powerful DSL for elegant description of JSON data.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Software Development #Mobile Apps 32 social mentions
Ice Landing Page
7

Ice

Develop in C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, MATLAB, Objective-C, PHP, Python, and Ruby. Deploy on Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, and iOS.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web App #Maps #Web And Application Servers 2 social mentions
Dask Landing Page
8

Dask

Dask natively scales Python Dask provides advanced parallelism for analytics, enabling performance at scale for the tools you love
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Workflows #Databases #Software Development 16 social mentions
Ansible Landing Page
9

Ansible

Radically simple configuration-management, application deployment, task-execution, and multi-node orchestration engine
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #IT Automation #Build And Deployment Automation 9 social mentions
Multipass Landing Page
10

Multipass

Multipass provides a command line interface to launch, manage and generally fiddle about with instances of Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Group Chat & Notifications #Virtualization Platform 86 social mentions
Podman Landing Page
11

Podman

Simple debugging tool for pods and images
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Productivity #Cloud Computing 101 social mentions
Productivity Power Tools Landing Page
12

Productivity Power Tools

Extension for Visual Studio - A set of extensions to Visual Studio 2012 Professional (and above) which improves developer productivity.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Regular Expressions #Programming Tools #Development 359 social mentions