The Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is a data format whose design goals include the possibility of extremely small code size, fairly small message size, and extensibility without the need for version negotiation. These design goals make it different from earlier binary serializations such as ASN.1 and MessagePack.
serpy - ridiculously fast object serialization #python
A lightweight library for converting complex datatypes to and from native Python datatypes.
JSON to SQL to CSV to Pandas? You need «into»:
(dictshield successor)
Python Data Structures for Humans™.
Schematics is a Python library to combine types into structures, validate them, and transform the shapes of your data based on simple descriptions.
The internals are similar to ORM type systems, but there is no database layer in Schematics. Instead, we believe that building a database layer is made significantly easier when Schematics handles everything but writing the query.
HStore in PostgreSQL 9.4 will support nested arrays, w/ binary representation x50 faster than JSON for some queries
A new wire protocol enabling applications to connect privately in a real-time and fully distributed manner, freeing them from relying on centralized datacenters
Sense – JSON aware dev interface to elasticsearch w/ syntax highlighting, autocomplete, formatting, code folding.