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by yencabulator 845 days ago
JSON Patch is incremental updates to a singular JSON document[1].

Lines-of-JSON is streaming delivery of multiple JSON documents. Most producers & consumers will only hold one item in memory at a time.

[1]: And kinda sucks at that job. Last time I benchmarked it, a gzipped lines-of-json stream that just repeated the whole document for every edit was smaller than a JSON Patch stream, and re-parsing the document was faster than applying JSON Patches.