Open-source serialization software
1984 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged serialization, ranked by how closely serialization is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
1984 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| nickel-lang/nickel Nickel is a configuration language that generates static configuration files like JSON, YAML, and XML, essentially 'JSON with functions'. I… | 92 | 3002 | active |
| kislyuk/yq A Python command-line tool that wraps jq to let you query and transform YAML, XML, and TOML documents using jq syntax. It converts input to… | 99 | 2993 | active |
| userver-framework/userver userver is a production-ready open-source C++ asynchronous framework with coroutines for building microservices, services, and utilities. I… | 93 | 2982 | stable |
| rtivital/omatsuri Omatsuri is a progressive web application bundling 12 open-source frontend-focused tools such as CSS generators, SVG compression/conversion… | 50 | 2972 | active |
| ZenStack ZenStack is a TypeScript data layer toolkit providing a schema-first, type-safe ORM with a Prisma-compatible API built on Kysely, plus buil… | 95 | 2954 | active |
| xelatihy/yocto-gl Yocto/GL is a collection of small C++17 libraries for building physically-based graphics algorithms, written in a data-oriented style and r… | 23 | 2929 | active |
| eProsima Fast DDS eProsima Fast DDS is a C++ implementation of the OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard with its RTPS wire protocol, serving as the d… | 97 | 2924 | stable |
| mlua mlua is a Rust library providing safe, high-level bindings to Lua 5.5/5.4/5.3/5.2/5.1 (including LuaJIT) and Luau, with async/await support… | 91 | 2870 | active |
| pikepdf/pikepdf pikepdf is a Python library for reading, writing, repairing, and transforming PDF files, built on the mature qpdf C++ library. It supports … | 96 | 2807 | active |
| twitter/util Twitter Util is a collection of small, idiomatic, general-purpose JVM libraries written in Scala, including concurrency primitives (a non-a… | 44 | 2719 | stable |
| Serenity Serenity is an ASP.NET Core / TypeScript application platform for building data-centric business applications with a service-based architec… | 97 | 2691 | active |
| SteveMacenski/slam_toolbox Slam Toolbox is a 2D SLAM library for ROS and ROS 2 providing lifelong mapping, localization, and pose-graph manipulation for potentially m… | 89 | 2658 | active |
| vsch/flexmark-java flexmark-java is a fast, extensible Java parser for CommonMark/Markdown that produces a source-position-aware AST and renders HTML, with em… | 36 | 2641 | stable |
| cloudwego/volo Volo is a high-performance, strongly extensible RPC framework written in Rust for building microservices. It provides Thrift, gRPC, and HTT… | 85 | 2630 | active |
| spotify/scio Scio is a Scala API for Apache Beam and Google Cloud Dataflow, inspired by Apache Spark and Scalding. It provides a unified batch and strea… | 96 | 2629 | active |
| axiomatic-systems/Bento4 Bento4 is a C++ class library and set of command-line tools for reading, writing, inspecting, encrypting, and packaging ISO-MP4 files, incl… | 69 | 2507 | stable |
| go-ldap/ldap A Go library providing basic LDAP v3 client functionality, implementing RFC 4511 and related specifications. It supports connecting to LDAP… | 90 | 2460 | stable |
| lihengming/spring-boot-api-project-seed A Spring Boot and MyBatis based seed/boilerplate project for quickly building small-to-medium RESTful API projects in Java. It provides bes… | 23 | 9680 | maintenance |
| nesrak1/UABEA UABEA is a cross-platform Unity asset bundle and serialized file reader/writer built in C# with Avalonia. It is designed as a modding and r… | 56 | 2436 | active |
| HAPI FHIR HAPI FHIR is a complete open-source Java implementation of the HL7 FHIR standard for healthcare data interoperability, providing APIs for b… | 99 | 2416 | stable |
| facil.io facil.io is a high-performance C micro-framework for web applications, providing an evented HTTP/1.1, WebSocket, and SSE server with pub/su… | 54 | 2408 | active |
| learnhouse/learnhouse LearnHouse is a next-generation open-source learning management system (LMS) for creating, sharing, and selling educational content. It com… | 100 | 2404 | active |
| liriliri/licia Licia is a zero-dependency JavaScript utility library containing over 400 micro modules for everyday tasks like DOM manipulation, cookies, … | 91 | 2382 | active |
| gookit/goutil goutil is a Go utility library providing 900+ helper functions across packages for strings, arrays, maps, structs, reflection, errors, time… | 95 | 2361 | active |
| kotlin-orm/ktorm Ktorm is a lightweight ORM framework for Kotlin built directly on pure JDBC, offering a strong-typed SQL DSL and entity sequence APIs. It r… | 80 | 2344 | active |
| orbitjs/orbit Orbit is a composable TypeScript data framework for orchestrating access, transformation, and synchronization across multiple data sources … | 48 | 2339 | active |
| Netcode for GameObjects Netcode for GameObjects is a Unity package providing high-level networking capabilities for GameObject and MonoBehaviour workflows, built o… | 97 | 2326 | active |
| Foodium Foodium is a sample food blog Android application demonstrating modern Android development practices with Kotlin, Coroutines, Flow, Hilt, M… | 52 | 2323 | stable |
| mattiasgustavsson/libs A collection of single-file, public domain (dual MIT) C/C++ libraries covering graphics app frameworks, data structures, threading, HTTP, a… | 57 | 2308 | active |
| RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus/RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus Runtime-Compiled C++ (RCC++) is a C++ library and sample project that lets developers recompile and swap C++ code while a program is runnin… | 51 | 2296 | active |
| xmppjs/xmpp.js xmpp.js is a modular JavaScript library implementing the XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) for building chat clients and co… | 78 | 2278 | active |
| twitter/finatra Finatra is a lightweight Scala framework for building fast, testable HTTP and Thrift services on top of TwitterServer and Finagle. It provi… | 36 | 2274 | stable |
| winder/Universal-G-Code-Sender Universal G-Code Sender is a free, cross-platform Java application for sending G-Code to CNC controllers such as GRBL, FluidNC, TinyG, g2co… | 94 | 2273 | active |
| Nethereum Nethereum is the .NET integration platform for Ethereum and EVM-compatible blockchains, offering 130+ NuGet packages covering RPC access, s… | 82 | 2260 | active |
| ukrbublik/react-awesome-query-builder A user-friendly React component library for visually building queries and filters with a drag-and-drop tree UI. It supports multiple UI ski… | 62 | 2257 | active |
| rehypejs/rehype rehype is an HTML processor powered by plugins, part of the unified collective, that parses HTML into an AST (hast) so plugins can inspect … | 58 | 2257 | active |
| Giraffe Giraffe is a functional micro web framework for F# that runs on top of ASP.NET Core. Applications are composed of HttpHandler functions tha… | 83 | 2256 | active |
| dynamoose/dynamoose Dynamoose is a modeling tool for Amazon's DynamoDB, heavily inspired by Mongoose, providing a high-level, type-safe API for defining schema… | 91 | 2249 | active |
| JasonXuDeveloper/JEngine JEngine is a Unity framework that enables runtime hot updates for games, letting developers push code, assets, and logic changes without re… | 73 | 2242 | active |
| lets-mica/mica Mica is a Java toolkit and set of Spring Boot/Spring Cloud starter components for microservice development, offering utilities, captcha, HT… | 76 | 2236 | active |
| python-restx/flask-restx Flask-RESTX is a community-maintained fork of Flask-RESTPlus, a Flask extension for quickly building REST APIs with minimal setup. It provi… | 54 | 2231 | active |
| samchon/nestia Nestia is a set of helper libraries for NestJS that turns plain TypeScript types into runtime validation, a typed client SDK, OpenAPI/Swagg… | 93 | 2179 | active |
| noborus/trdsql trdsql is a Go-based CLI tool that executes SQL queries directly against CSV, LTSV, JSON, JSONL, YAML, and TBLN files, supporting PostgreSQ… | 92 | 2176 | active |
| tdunning/t-digest A Java library implementing the t-digest data structure for accurate online accumulation of rank-based statistics such as quantiles and tri… | 32 | 2173 | stable |
| amll-dev/applemusic-like-lyrics A web component library that renders Apple Music (iPad)-style word-by-word lyrics with animated fluid backgrounds, offering framework-agnos… | 76 | 2157 | active |
| warpstreamlabs/bento Bento is a high-performance, resilient stream processor written in Go that connects a wide range of sources and sinks (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Redi… | 89 | 2155 | active |
| ogen-go/ogen ogen is an OpenAPI v3 code generator for Go that produces statically typed client and server code from an OpenAPI specification. It generat… | 94 | 2143 | stable |
| google/spatial-media A collection of metadata specifications and Python tools from Google for 360-degree video, VR180, and spatial audio. It includes a tool for… | 62 | 2127 | active |
| ROM ROM (Ruby Object Mapper) is a data mapping and persistence toolkit for Ruby that provides powerful object mapping without limiting the unde… | 81 | 2108 | active |
| Foundatio Foundatio is a C# library of pluggable abstractions for building loosely coupled distributed applications, covering caching, queues, messag… | 93 | 2102 | active |
| TileDB TileDB is an embeddable C++ storage engine for dense and sparse multi-dimensional arrays, with cloud object storage support (S3, GCS, Azure… | 82 | 2084 | stable |
| Nez Nez is a free, feature-rich 2D game framework built on top of MonoGame and FNA in C#. It provides an Entity/Component system, physics, rend… | 60 | 2075 | active |
| rememberber/MooTool MooTool is an all-in-one desktop developer toolbox offering dozens of handy utilities in a single GUI app, including JSON formatting, times… | 98 | 2051 | active |
| baiy/Ctool Ctool is a multi-platform Swiss-army toolbox of common developer utilities including hashing, encryption/decryption, encoding, JSON/YAML/XM… | 34 | 2050 | active |
| noamgat/lm-format-enforcer A Python library that enforces output formats like JSON Schema or regex on language models by filtering allowed tokens at each generation s… | 60 | 2040 | active |
| reactive/data-client Reactive Data Client is a TypeScript async state management library for React, React Native, Vue, and Next.js that provides declarative, sc… | 95 | 2039 | active |
| Commanded Commanded is an Elixir framework for building applications using the CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) and Event Sourcing (ES… | 85 | 2035 | stable |
| liangjingkanji/Net Net is a coroutine-based Android networking library built on top of OkHttp, offering a non-intrusive API that supports all OkHttp features … | 34 | 2035 | active |
| attr-encrypted/attr_encrypted A Ruby gem that generates attr_accessors which transparently encrypt and decrypt attributes on any Ruby class. It integrates with ActiveRec… | 40 | 2017 | active |
| zfoo-project/zfoo zfoo is an extremely fast, asynchronous, actor-based Java server framework built on Netty that can serve as an RPC framework, game server f… | 70 | 2013 | active |
| shcherbak-ai/contextgem ContextGem is an open-source Python LLM framework for extracting structured data and insights from documents with minimal code. It provides… | 90 | 2009 | active |
| corpnewt/GenSMBIOS A Python script by corpnewt that wraps acidanthera's macserial tool to generate SMBIOS serial numbers and related identifiers for Hackintos… | 56 | 2003 | active |
| apple/swift-openapi-generator A Swift package plugin that generates type-safe Swift client and server code from OpenAPI 3.x documents at build time. Generated code is de… | 97 | 1977 | active |
| dotnet/dotNext DotNext is a family of .NET libraries extending the standard API with high-performance, low-allocation primitives such as async locks, unma… | 77 | 1965 | active |
| oxigraph/oxigraph Oxigraph is a SPARQL graph database and RDF toolkit written in Rust, built on RocksDB. It provides RDF parsing, serialization, canonicaliza… | 96 | 1947 | active |
| georust/geo A Rust crate providing geospatial primitive types (Point, LineString, Polygon) and a broad set of spatial algorithms including boolean oper… | 77 | 1947 | stable |
| mikependon/RepoDB RepoDB is a high-performance hybrid-ORM library and data access platform for .NET, exposing fluent CRUD and raw SQL operations as extension… | 94 | 1905 | stable |
| kennethreitz/records Records is a Python library for making raw SQL queries to relational databases with a simple, human-friendly interface for accessing result… | 49 | 7216 | maintenance |
| Datahike Datahike is a durable, versioned Datalog database with Datomic-compatible APIs and git-like semantics, built on persistent data structures … | 93 | 1877 | active |
| spring-projects/spring-data-redis Spring Data Redis is part of the Spring Data portfolio, providing configuration and access to Redis from Spring applications via low-level … | 96 | 1872 | active |
| NewLifeX/X NewLife.X is a core foundational component library for .NET (C#) providing logging, configuration, caching (memory/Redis), networking (TCP/… | 65 | 1858 | active |
| MobileNativeFoundation/XCLogParser XCLogParser is a Swift CLI tool that parses Xcode and xcodebuild build and test logs stored in the xcactivitylog (SLF) format. It generates… | 83 | 1852 | active |
| tikv/grpc-rs gRPC-rs (published as grpcio) is a Rust wrapper around the gRPC Core C library, providing asynchronous client and server RPC built on futur… | 65 | 1851 | active |
| 188080501/JQTools JQTools is an open-source developer toolbox built with Qt/QML/C++ that bundles common small utilities: text processing, hash and encryption… | 84 | 1838 | active |
| CoreWCF CoreWCF is a port of the service side of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to .NET Core, provided as NuGet packages. It enables existi… | 81 | 1777 | active |
| go-fuego/fuego Fuego is a production-ready Go web API framework that automatically generates OpenAPI 3 documentation from typed handler code using generic… | 74 | 1776 | active |
| Farama-Foundation/Minari Minari is a Python library providing a standard format for offline reinforcement learning datasets, with popular reference datasets and uti… | 86 | 1772 | active |
| MonoGame-Extended/Monogame-Extended MonoGame.Extended is a set of open-source C# libraries distributed via NuGet that extend MonoGame with common game development utilities. I… | 92 | 1768 | active |
| swisspol/GCDWebServer GCDWebServer is a lightweight, event-driven HTTP 1.1 server written in Objective-C for embedding in iOS, macOS, and tvOS apps. It includes … | 10 | 6614 | maintenance |
| mpdavis/python-jose python-jose is a Python implementation of the JOSE (JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption) standards, including JWS, JWE, JWK, and JWT. … | 57 | 1759 | stable |
| dj-bolt/django-bolt Django-Bolt is a Python web framework that layers a Rust (Actix Web + Tokio) HTTP server and msgspec-based typed async handlers on top of D… | 81 | 1744 | active |
| The Update Framework (TUF) Python reference implementation of The Update Framework (TUF), a CNCF-graduated specification for securing software update systems against … | 85 | 1728 | stable |
| airockchip/rknn-llm RKLLM is Rockchip's software stack for converting, quantizing, and running large language models on Rockchip NPU chips such as RK3588 and R… | 83 | 1704 | active |
| babyfish-ct/jimmer Jimmer is a modern ORM framework for the JVM supporting both Java and Kotlin, built around immutable entities and type-safe query DSLs. It … | 94 | 1672 | active |
| NettyGameServer A distributed mobile game server framework built on Netty 4.x in Java, supporting TCP, UDP, HTTP, and WebSocket connections with a custom p… | 54 | 1672 | active |
| scito/extract_otp_secrets A Python CLI tool that extracts one-time password (TOTP/HOTP) secrets from QR codes exported by two-factor authentication apps like Google … | 89 | 1668 | active |
| slackhq/go-audit go-audit is a Go-based replacement for the auditd daemon that consumes Linux kernel audit events via netlink and outputs them as JSON. It s… | 81 | 1665 | active |
| Gooddbird/tinyrpc TinyRPC is a C++ asynchronous RPC framework built on a reactor event loop with coroutine support, claiming 140k+ QPS. It supports a custom … | 63 | 1663 | active |
| KirillOsenkov/MSBuildStructuredLog A structured logger for MSBuild that records executed targets, tasks, properties, and item values into a portable binary format (*.binlog).… | 96 | 1657 | active |
| Philippus/elastic4s Elastic4s is a concise, type-safe, reactive Scala client for Elasticsearch built around a builder-like DSL. It supports Scala idioms like f… | 96 | 1639 | active |
| ankane/lockbox Lockbox is a Ruby gem providing modern encryption for database fields, files, and strings in Ruby and Rails applications. It integrates wit… | 75 | 1609 | stable |
| fiduswriter/simple-datatables A lightweight, dependency-free HTML table library written in TypeScript and transpiled to vanilla JavaScript, similar to jQuery DataTables … | 71 | 1608 | active |
| benavlabs/fastcrud FastCRUD is a Python library for FastAPI that provides fully async CRUD operations built on SQLAlchemy 2.0 (or SQLModel) with Pydantic sche… | 86 | 1594 | active |
| solana-foundation/solana-go A Go SDK library and RPC client for the Solana blockchain, providing interfaces to Solana's JSON RPC and WebSocket APIs. It supports key ma… | 98 | 1589 | active |
| metosin/reitit Reitit is a fast, data-driven routing library for Clojure and ClojureScript. It provides bi-directional routing, first-class route data, pl… | 93 | 1587 | stable |
| simplepie/simplepie SimplePie is a fast, easy-to-use PHP library for fetching, caching, and parsing RSS and Atom syndication feeds. It normalizes feed data acr… | 60 | 1576 | active |
| SuperDB SuperDB Desktop (Zui) is an Electron-based desktop application for exploring, searching, and transforming data, serving as the official fro… | 89 | 1575 | active |
| php-standard-library/php-standard-library PSL is a standard library for PHP inspired by Hack's HSL, providing consistent, well-typed APIs for collections, async, I/O, cryptography, … | 88 | 1570 | active |
| Legend Legend is an end-to-end data platform from FINOS (originated at Goldman Sachs) covering the full data lifecycle: modeling, curation, queryi… | 77 | 1553 | active |
| chibisov/drf-extensions DRF-extensions is a collection of custom extensions for Django REST Framework, providing mixins, routers, caching, conditional requests, ne… | 62 | 1551 | active |