Compare different data formats and their parsing speed to be used in iOS projects.

index - Data format - parsing library - link

1. JSON JSONKit https://github.com/johnezang/JSONKit
2. MessagePack msgpack-objectivec https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-objectivec
3. Protocol Buffers ? ?
4. Thrift - http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/ThriftUsageObjectiveC
5. vtd-xml ? http://vtd-xml.sourceforge.net/ xml based
6. fast-infoset ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Infoset xml based
7. exi ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_XML_Interchange xml based
8. avro ? http://avro.apache.org/docs/current/
9. hessian ? http://hessian.caucho.com/

not supported:

1. smile ?