title: Avro schema storage
body: <p>We are evaluating avro v/s thrift for storage. At this point Avro seems to be our choice, however the documentation states that the schema is stored alongside the data when serialized, is there a way to avoid this, since we are incharge of both producing and consuming the data, we want to see if we can avoid serializing the schema, and also is the difference in size of the serialized data with the schema is much larger than just the data without schema?</p>