look at and/or switch to serializing data using MsgPack #29
Description
http://msgpack.org/
https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-ruby
Seems to be the cool kid on the block. Maybe faster?
- http://wtanaka.com/node/8100
- "These differences imply that MessagePack is originally designed for network communication while BSON is designed for storages." http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6355497/performant-entity-serialization-bson-vs-messagepack-vs-json
- "We currently store BSON blobs of data in many places. This is unfortunate, because BSON is bloated and slow..." http://alexgaynor.net/2013/feb/16/disambiguating-bson-and-msgpack/