The Ultimate JSON Library: JSON.simple vs. GSON vs. Jackson vs. JSONP

JSON is the accepted standard these days for transmitting data between servers and web applications. We often don’t think about the JSON libraries we use, but there are some differences between them.

JSON is often used to transport and parse big files. This is a scenario that is common in data processing applications running in Hadoop or Spark clusters. Given the size of these files, you can be looking at significant differences in parsing speed between libraries.