Top 10 Apache Thrift Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to Apache Thrift Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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GRPC
By GRPC
4.3/5
(23)
Product Description
GRPC is a high performance, open source, general RPC framework based on HTTP/2.
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Reviewers say compared to Apache Thrift, GRPC is:
More usable
More expensive
Better at meeting requirements
Categories in common with Apache Thrift:
Service Discovery

Docker
By Docker
4.6/5
(295)
Product Description
Docker hub is a Dev-test pipeline automation with 100,000+ free apps, public and private registries.
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Reviewers say compared to Apache Thrift, Docker is:
Easier to do business with
More usable
Easier to set up
Categories in common with Apache Thrift:
Service Discovery

HashiCorp Consul
By HashiCorp
4.3/5
(23)
Product Description
Consul makes it simple for services to register themselves and to discover other services via a DNS or HTTP interface.
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Reviewers say compared to Apache Thrift, HashiCorp Consul is:
Easier to admin
More usable
Easier to do business with
Categories in common with Apache Thrift:
Service Discovery

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Eureka
By Netflix
4.1/5
(14)
Product Description
Netflix Eureka is a RESTful service registry designed to facilitate service discovery, load balancing, and failover in cloud environments, particularly within Amazon Web Services (AWS). It enables dynamic registration and deregistration of services, allowing client applications to locate and communicate with available service instances efficiently. Eureka's architecture supports resilience by replicating service registration information across multiple nodes, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance. Key Features and Functionality: - Service Discovery: Eureka allows services to register themselves and discover other services without hardcoded addresses, facilitating dynamic scaling and deployment. - Load Balancing: It provides client-side load balancing, distributing requests among available service instances to optimize resource utilization and performance. - Failover Support: Eureka enhances system resilience by enabling automatic failover, redirecting traffic from failing instances to healthy ones. - RESTful API: The service offers a REST-based interface for service registration, discovery, and health checks, simplifying integration with various applications. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Eureka addresses the challenges of managing service instances in dynamic cloud environments, where servers frequently scale up or down. By providing a centralized service registry, it eliminates the need for manual configuration of service endpoints, reducing the complexity and potential errors associated with service communication. This dynamic service discovery mechanism ensures that applications can adapt to changes in the infrastructure seamlessly, enhancing the overall reliability and scalability of distributed systems.
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Reviewers say compared to Apache Thrift, Eureka is:
More expensive
Categories in common with Apache Thrift:
Service Discovery

Hysterix
By Netflix
3.4/5
(15)
Product Description
Hystrix is a latency and fault tolerance library designed to isolate points of access to remote systems, services and 3rd party libraries, stop cascading failure and enable resilience in complex distributed systems where failure is inevitable.
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Reviewers say compared to Apache Thrift, Hysterix is:
More usable
Categories in common with Apache Thrift:
Service Discovery

AWS Cloud Map
By Amazon Web Services (AWS)
4.4/5
(56)
Product Description
AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, and it maintains the updated location of these dynamically changing resources. This increases your application availability because your web service always discovers the most up-to-date locations of its resources.
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Reviewers say compared to Apache Thrift, AWS Cloud Map is:
More expensive
Easier to do business with
More usable
Categories in common with Apache Thrift:
Service Discovery

Traefik
By Traefik Labs
4.6/5
(35)
Product Description
Traefik (pronounced like traffic) is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease. It supports several backends (Docker, Swarm mode, Kubernetes, Marathon, Consul, Etcd, Rancher, Amazon ECS, and a lot more) to manage its configuration automatically and dynamically.
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Reviewers say compared to Apache Thrift, Traefik is:
Easier to do business with
Better at meeting requirements
Easier to admin
Categories in common with Apache Thrift:
Service Discovery

SkyDNS
By SkyDNS
4/5
(15)
Product Description
SkyDNS is a distributed service for announcement and discovery of services built on top of etcd. It utilizes DNS queries to discover available services. This is done by leveraging SRV records in DNS, with special meaning given to subdomains, priorities and weights.
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Reviewers say compared to Apache Thrift, SkyDNS is:
More expensive
Categories in common with Apache Thrift:
Service Discovery

runc
By Object Computing
4.2/5
(11)
Product Description
runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification.
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Reviewers say compared to Apache Thrift, runc is:
More usable
More expensive
Categories in common with Apache Thrift:
Service Discovery