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Barrique is a schema-based binary serialization format featuring compression, metadata and streaming. The format was designed for locally storing large (>8 MiB) long-term memory objects.
The format is capable of storing any data representable in a sequence of bytes, meaning a schema is required to interpret the bytes. Data stored in regions up to `64 KiB - 1` bytes of raw bytes, each region holds a header. The specification has two available formats: Stream and Frame. Frame is a wrapper for Stream featuring a metadata header and a magic number. Stream is a core structure the format declares representing a sequence of regions.
## Implementation
Standard barrique implementation published as a Rust crate. The implementation features in-place initialization for decoding pipeline and `#[derive(...)]` macros,
an example of which showed below:
```rust
use barrique::{Encode, Decode};
#[derive(Encode, Decode)]
struct Hello {
hello: String,
world: World,
}
#[derive(Encode, Decode)]
enum World {
Flat(i32, #[barrique(skip)] u8),
Circular
}
```
Visit [Docs](https:/docs.rs/barrique) for more information.
## Specification
Barrique serialization format specification declared [here](https://github.com/rockstorm-io/barrique/blob/main/SPEC)
