BSON

File Format
Name	BSON
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Serialization BSON
Extension(s)	.bson

BSON is a binary serialization format designed to be similar to JSON, only binary-based rather than text-based. It is used in MongoDB.

Multi-byte numeric quantities are little-endian.

Specifications

• Official spec

Metaformat files

• Synalysis grammar file (for Hexinator / Synalize It!; more details)

Other links

• Wikipedia article
• Info in MongoDB site