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		oandrew on Nov 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hier... So basically it's Amazon's version of Apache Avro. Avro supports binary/json serialization, schema evolution , logical types (e.g. timestamp) and other cool stuff. https://avro.apache.org/docs/current/spec.html

joshka on Nov 20, 2021 | [–]

Avro didn't exist when Ion started development.

fnord77 on Nov 20, 2021 | | [–]

I wanted to see what the differences are between Ion and Avro.

Unlike avro, ion doesn't require a schema.

whimsicalism on Nov 20, 2021 | [–]

... or thrift ... or protobuf

https://xkcd.com/927/

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