Apache Avro Tools

Create schemas, validate, and encode/decode Avro data

Avro Schema Validator

Create and validate Apache Avro schemas

About Apache Avro

Apache Avro is a data serialization system that provides rich data structures, a compact binary format, and a container file for storing persistent data.

Key Features:

  • Schema Evolution: Supports adding, removing, and modifying fields
  • Dynamic Typing: No code generation required to read/write data files
  • Compact: Binary encoding is space-efficient
  • Fast: Simple binary format enables fast serialization

Common Data Types:

  • Primitive: null, boolean, int, long, float, double, bytes, string
  • Complex: record, enum, array, map, union, fixed

Use Cases:

  • Big data processing with Apache Hadoop
  • Stream processing with Apache Kafka
  • Data warehousing and analytics
  • Long-term data archival
  • RPC and messaging systems