linkedin/goavro

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1071 stars · 232 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Goavro is a Go library that encodes and decodes Apache Avro data in both binary and textual JSON formats. It provides a stateless, goroutine-safe Codec that parses Avro schemas and converts records to and from native Go maps.

Use cases

• encode and decode avro data in go
• read avro binary files from kafka
• convert avro json to go structs
• parse avro schemas in a go service
• serialize records to avro binary format
• decode avro messages from a schema registry

When to choose

• you need a mature, spec-compliant Avro library for Go
• you need both binary and JSON Avro encoding
• you want a simple map-based API without code generation
• you're maintaining an existing codebase already using goavro

When to avoid

• you need maximum performance at large scale - prefer hamba/avro
• you're starting a new project, since goavro is in maintenance mode
• you need Avro features not yet supported by the library
• you want generated typed structs rather than native Go maps

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

serialization parser developer-tools big-data go cross-platform avro data-serialization binary-format json-encoding schema-registry data-engineering

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