xwformats 0.0.1.4

Convenience wrapper for exonware-xwformats - provides 'import xwformats' alias

xwformats - Enterprise Serialization Formats

Company: eXonware.com
Author: Eng. Muhammad AlShehri
Email: [e-mail]
Version: 0.0.1.4 Date: 02-Nov-2025

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Overview

Extended serialization format library providing heavyweight enterprise formats for specialized domains.

Note: This library is separated from xwsystem to keep the core lightweight and fast.

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What's Inside

18 Enterprise Formats (~87 MB):

Schema Formats (7):

• Protocol Buffers
• Apache Avro
• Apache Parquet
• Apache Thrift
• Apache ORC
• Cap'n Proto
• FlatBuffers

Scientific Formats (5):

• HDF5
• Feather
• Zarr
• NetCDF
• MATLAB MAT

Database Formats (3):

• LMDB
• GraphDB (Neo4j, Dgraph)
• LevelDB

Binary Formats (2):

• BSON
• UBJSON

Text Formats (1):

• XML (enterprise features)

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Installation

# Standard installation
pip install exonware-xwformats

# With xwsystem
pip install exonware-xwsystem exonware-xwformats

# Or use xwsystem[lazy] for auto-installation
pip install exonware-xwsystem[lazy]

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Usage

from exonware.xwformats import (
    ParquetSerializer,
    ProtobufSerializer,
    Hdf5Serializer,
    # ... all enterprise formats
)

# Or through xwsystem
from exonware.xwsystem import XWIO

io = XWIO()
io.serialize(data, format="parquet")  # Auto-discovers xwformats!

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Why Separate from xwsystem?

Performance:

• xwsystem: ~5 MB (core formats only)
• xwformats: ~87 MB (enterprise formats)
• Install only what you need!

Startup Time:

• xwsystem alone: ~0.1s (20x faster!)
• With xwformats: ~2s (when actually used)

Coverage:

• xwsystem: 14 core formats (80%+ use cases)
• xwformats: 18 enterprise formats (specialized needs)

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License

MIT License - See LICENSE file

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Part of the eXonware ecosystem