Tycho Binary Format

A minimal, self-describing and traversable data format designed around rust and the serde data model.

Design Features

• Small storage sizes
• Traversable
• Self describing
• Map to Rust/Serde data model
• Support for 128-bit numbers
• Easy/Fast to encode/decode
• Ability to contain a single non-terminating value.

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--- JSON --- { "foo": "Hello World", "bar": 10, "baz": true } ------ JSON BYTES ------ 7b 22 66 6f 6f 22 3a 22 48 65 6c 6c 6f 20 57 6f 72 6c 64 22 2c 22 62 61 72 22 3a 31 30 2c 22 62 61 7a 22 3a 74 72 75 65 7d ------ BSON ------ 29 00 00 00 02 66 6f 6f 00 0c 00 00 00 48 65 6c 6c 6f 20 57 6f 72 6c 64 00 10 62 61 72 00 0a 00 00 00 08 62 61 7a 00 01 00 ------ TYCHO ------ 05 21 62 61 7a 00 01 01 01 62 61 72 00 01 04 01 0a 66 6f 6f 00 01 02 0b 48 65 6c 6c 6f 20 57 6f 72 6c 64 ------ TYCHO VERBOSE ----- Struct({"baz": Value(Boolean(true)), "bar": Value(Number(Unsigned8(10))), "foo": Value(String("Hello World"))})

Deconstruction

05 - Structure 21 - (33 bytes length) [Field 0] 66 - "f" 6f - "o" 6f - "o" 00 - NULL/EOS 01 - Value 02 - String 0b - (11 bytes length) 48 - "H" 65 - "e" 6c - "l" 6c - "l" 6f - "o" 20 - " " 57 - "W" 6f - "o" 72 - "r" 6c - "l" 64 - "d" [Field 1] 62 - "b" 61 - "a" 72 - "r" 00 - NULL/EOS 01 - Value 04 - Number 01 - Unsigned 8 10 - #10 [Field 2] 62 - "b" 61 - "a" 7a - "z" 00 - NULL/EOS 01 - Value 01 - Boolean 01 - true