Fast serialization library for Clojure

Clojure's rich data types are awesome. And its reader allows you to take your data just about anywhere. But the reader can be painfully slow when you've got a lot of data to crunch (like when you're serializing to a database).

Nippy is a mature, high-performance drop-in alternative to the reader.

It is used at scale by Carmine, Faraday, PigPen, Onyx, XTDB, Datalevin, and others.

Why Nippy?

• Small, simple pure-Clojure library
• Terrific performance: the best for Clojure that I'm aware of
• Comprehensive support for all standard data types
• Easily extendable to custom data types
• Robust test suite incl. coverage of every supported type
• Mature and widely used in production for 12+ years
• Optional auto fallback to Java Serializable for safe types
• Optional auto fallback to Clojure Reader (including tagged literals)
• Optional smart compression with LZ4 or Zstandard
• Optional encryption with AES128
• Tools for easy + robust integration into 3rd-party libraries, etc.
• Powerful thaw transducer for flexible data inspection and transformation