Home Top About Help Login Search Binary Protocol of Kyoto Tycoon ID: 19 creation date: 2010/12/03 04:50 modification date: 2010/12/03 04:50 owner: mikio The latest version of Kyoto Tycoon features the binary protocol, which improves space efficiency. One of the advantages of Kyoto Tycoon is that applications can access the server by HTTP. HTTP is awesome. Because most popular languages provides libraries speaking HTTP, you can use Kyoto Tycoon out of the box without writing your own accessor library. As the data stream is visible to human, debugging and extension are easy. You can take various architecture using existing mechanisms for HTTP such as load balancer. However, at the same time of such general versatility, HTTP is a very verbose protocol. The essential data will be less than half, on the assumption that you use HTTP in order to send/receive small ...