FlatBuffers

Cross-platform serialization software library

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Also known as flatbuffers

Developer: Wouter van Oortmerssen
Latest version: 25.12.19
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1.“Release 25.12.19”github.com/google/flatbuffers/releases/tag/v25.12.19Retrieved 2026-04-07
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, 1.7.1
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1.“Release 1.7.1”github.com/google/flatbuffers/releases/tag/v1.7.1Retrieved 2018-03-13
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, 1.7.0
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1.“Release 1.7.0”github.com/google/flatbuffers/releases/tag/v1.7.0Retrieved 2018-03-13
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Written in: C++
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1.github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Data/github-ranking-2025-07-06.csv
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License: Apache Software License 2.0
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1.api.github.com/repos/google/flatbuffersRetrieved 2019-03-05
2.github.com/google/flatbuffers
3.api.github.com/repos/google/flatbuffersRetrieved 2022-10-05
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Operating system: cross-platform
Website: google.github.io/flatbuffers

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FlatBuffers is a free software library implementing a serialization format similar to Protocol Buffers, Thrift, Apache Avro, SBE, and Cap'n Proto, primarily written by Wouter van Oortmerssen and open-sourced by Google. It supports “zero-copy” deserialization, so that accessing the serialized data does not require first copying it into a separate part of memory. This makes accessing data in these formats much faster than data in formats requiring more extensive processing, such as JSON, CSV, and in many cases Protocol Buffers. Compared to other serialization formats however, the handling of FlatBuffers usually requires more code, and some operations are not possible.

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Copyright status: copyrighted
File extension: fbs
Uses: zero-copy

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