PHP Binary Json

Bson written in C, wrapped in php extension.

Reference

• http://bsonspec.org/
• https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-php-driver

Test Conditions

Hackintosh laptop: i3 2.2Ghz, 4GB of RAM, over TCP on localhost.

Message count: 100,000 messages

Test Results for one field

"msgid" as a name, with the message number as the value

BSON

• Average per message encoding: 1140 ns
• Average per message decoding: 245 ns
• Average Bytes per message: 16 bytes

Protobuf

• Average per message encoding: 3981 ns
• Average per message decoding: 4036 ns
• Average Bytes per message: 15 bytes

YAML

• Average per message encoding: 244490 ns
• Average per message decoding: 412915 ns
• Average Bytes per message: Not recorded
• Test Results for 2 fields

Putting in two numbers, in random field order and sending to the server.

BSON

• Average per message encoding: Not recorded
• Average per message decoding: 299 ns
• Average Bytes per message: 32 bytes

Protobuf

• Average per message encoding: Not recorded
• Average per message decoding: 7422 ns
• Average Bytes per message: 57 bytes

YAML

• Average per message encoding: Not recorded
• Average per message decoding: 316531 ns
• Average Bytes per message: 32 bytes
• Test results for 50 fields

Putting in 50 fields, randomly sorted, each with a number consisting of the current message id multiplied by the index of the shuffled field name array. Decoding time includes access to "field_1" which is in a random location within the entire data set.

BSON

• Average per message encoding: 14196 ns
• Average per message decoding: 302 ns
• Average Bytes per message: 695 bytes

Protobuf

• Average per message encoding: 110480 ns
• Average per message decoding: 106609 ns
• Average Bytes per message: 695 bytes

YAML

• Average per message encoding: 7135667 ns
• Average per message decoding: 4893947 ns
• Average Bytes per message: 853 bytes