[GitHub] [couchdb] kocolosk commented on issue #2203: Add support for MessagePack, or other compact/binary format

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kocolosk commented on issue #2203:
URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/2203#issuecomment-754224498


   @flimzy I happened upon the CBOR spec for an entirely different reason last week and sat down to read it through. I think there's a lot to like. It handles everything I could think of from my experience working with CouchDB. I like that the authors paid special attention to round-tripping through JSON, and while it's a larger topic I particularly like the approach to extensibility that allows CBOR to handle things like timestamps and arbitrary-precision decimals. I could see a future where CouchDB allowed any JSON, but also supported a particular spec based on CBOR that would enable us to introduce a richer set of datatypes in the database.
   
   @fangq as it turns out, when @rkalla was first working on UBJSON he had several discussions with @davisp and @kxepal from the CouchDB community and floated the idea of having CouchDB adopt UBJSON, first as an encoding on the wire but possibly also as an on-disk representation if the wire format took off. That was almost ten years ago, but I can imagine that a UBJSON encoding would be achievable given that history.


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