bson messages are often larger than their json counterpart. The benefit of bson isn't size, but rather ease (on the cpu) of serializing and deserializing.
I agree in part. Most of the time JSON and BSON are very similar in size, and sometimes larger (due to length prefixes). But, size benefits do emerge when you need to store binary data inside the object. Instead of a base64 encoded string, the binary data can be stored directly.
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bson messages are often larger than their json counterpart. The benefit of bson isn't size, but rather ease (on the cpu) of serializing and deserializing.
I agree in part. Most of the time JSON and BSON are very similar in size, and sometimes larger (due to length prefixes). But, size benefits do emerge when you need to store binary data inside the object. Instead of a base64 encoded string, the binary data can be stored directly.
Yeah, GridFS would be pretty silly in JSON.