google protocol buffers vs apache thrift

Protocol buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format.

 

Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all of its internal RPC protocols and file formats.

 

 

Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development.

 

It combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa, Smalltalk and OCaml.