Sonata exporter allows you to convert large amount of data from a source to an output format (most generally to a file) by streaming it (hence avoiding too much memory consumption).
// This can be any instance of SourceIteratorInterface
$source = new ArraySourceIterator(array(/* your data */));
// This could be any format supported
$writer = new JsonWriter('php://output');
$handler = Handler::create($source, $writer);
$handler->export();