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Yukti A.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/17/2018

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"Good for sending structs between microservices"

4/5

What do you like best about Apache Thrift?

Able to use this with several languages and create generated files for each. Currently, I use it with Golang and Javascript. I know others who use it with Java and Python as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Thrift?

Order of the structs do matter using Apache Thrift. So if the second struct is a field in the first struct, there will be errors. To get around this, any struct which is a field of another should be put above the ones that use them as fields.

There are other branches of this tool which take care of that bug. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apache Thrift Reviews & Product Details

The Apache Thrift software framework, for scalable cross-language services development, combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa, JavaScript, Node.js, Smalltalk, OCaml and Delphi and other languages.

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Verified User in Government Administration

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/22/2019

"Apache Thrift Functionality"

4/5

What do you like best about Apache Thrift?

My company is a fan of Apache and we have used many products before. But Apache Thrift brought with it some versatility that we were able to use to our advantage. We run a website that is visited by over 10,000 people daily from all backgrounds and Thrift helped us set up an interface where many languages were supported. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Thrift?

It was a good overall program only issue we had was integrating the language it’s written in as we primarily use .net and c# but we were able to get support to integrate it into our framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/17/2020

"Apache thrift - powerful technology for micro-service"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Apache Thrift?

Apache thrift support allmost programing language Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Thrift?

Documentation not much. It still have some problem to apply new technology like Spring, Spring boot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Janaka B.

Software Engineer

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/18/2019

"Get your our own network protocol. up and running in 5 minutes - with just one config file!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Apache Thrift?

Simple, Java-like service definition syntax

Autogeneration of full client and stub interfaces for server side

Easy stub generation via single CLI command

Apache 2.0 license, allowing it to be used in FOSS as well as commercial/proprietary products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Thrift?

Exceptions from server-side have to be deserialized and rethrown on client side, in order to obtain the proper stacktraces; not having the stacktrace could be good for production but it is convenient to at least have an option to enable them during dev/test.

Thrift Java library pulls in some extra dependencies, which can conflict with the rest of your project (like Apache HttpComponents, which to my awareness wasn't even necessary for our basic binary-protocol implementation) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Apache Thrift:

Remember that Thrift composes its payloads in-memory (at least in 0.9.1 which we used in production). So you need to allocate sufficient memory to the server process, based on the number of expected concurrent client requests.

If your payloads come from a database, it may be useful to introduce an intermediate in-process caching layer in order to reduce concurrent DB load. This may also help in reducing memory consumption as you can reuse the same read-only payload (e.g. byte array) for serving multiple client requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Thrift solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Thrift as the principal transport for internal configuration and artifact transfer, in our On-Premise Enterprise Integration Platform product: https://www.g2crowd.com/products/ips-enterprise-integration-platform. Thrift has been scalable, solid and performant in serving large messages/payloads to several concurrent container runtimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Shipbuilding

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/22/2019

"Apache Thrift review"

4/5

What do you like best about Apache Thrift?

Although it was initially developed by Facebook, it's now open source under the Apache License. Easy to read definition files. Considering that Thrift's WSDL documents tend to be smaller and more straightforward means that it has easy to read definition files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Thrift?

Cannot abstract api functionality/data to edge cases in distributed architecture. Instead uses localized api pattern. Thrift is slightly slower than google's protobuffers (benchmarks state that it's 10%, concerning either TBinary or TCompact protocols) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/22/2019

"This is an awesome product!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Apache Thrift?

Incredibley easy to use! There is a bit of a learning curve but after a couple of months you get the hang of it! I cannot imagine working without it now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Thrift?

I think we can work on boot up time. It take significantly longer to load than anything else on my computer. I am not the only one, I am sure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Supun N.

Analyst/Programmer

Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/21/2018

"Apache Thrift RPC Framework"

4/5

What do you like best about Apache Thrift?

The best feature that I found in Apache thrift is it's ability to compile server and client code for different target languages using a common thrift interface description file. With this feature, it is possible to develop your server-side interface in one language, say in Java, and generate client stubs in different languages including Java, C++, PHP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Thrift?

The main thing I dislike about thrift is its inability to define inheritance when defining thrift objects. Because of this, we had created multiple data transfer object definition with redundant attributes. If inheritance was available as a first-class citizen in thrift this could have been avoided Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Apache Thrift:

Apache thrift is a well stable open-source project which is also highly efficient. Appart from that is also easy to work with and the growing list of language support is also a plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Thrift solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used thrift as the communication layer between the distributed software components. Such a communication layer was helpful in most of our microservices architecture applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/22/2019

"Full stack support for client and server creation"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Apache Thrift?

A large number of protocols are supported including but not limited to Tbinary, TCompact, and TJSON. Clean library and no framework to code.No build dependencies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Thrift?

Socket per client thread model means a lot of sockets. Multiple services cannot be registered per socket Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Apache Thrift:

Consider if the company/organization lets you use other better and easier to use alternatives before falling back to thrift as a last resort Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Thrift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using it to build cross-platform services which can be used to connect applications written in a variety of languages and frameworks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joshua P.

SPC

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/22/2019

"Apache, good or bad...."

4/5

What do you like best about Apache Thrift?

It’s simple to use , this making it easier to get things done and it isn’t expensive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Thrift?

I do not think there is or was anything that I disliked about it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Oil & Energy

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/22/2019

"Quick and Easy Software"

5/5

What do you like best about Apache Thrift?

The simplicity of the software. Can be used with several languages making it easy to work with clients. Can be used across several networks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Thrift?

The large data handling can create issues. Better support would help as well. Errors in use with some applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Apache Thrift:

The definition files are easy to read due to the WSDL Docs being smaller so it creates less headaches! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apache Thrift solving and how is that benefiting you?

The cross languages between software being developed helps broaden. Connecting several servers with different technology makes this great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Broadcast Media

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/21/2019

"What I expected and more"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Apache Thrift?

The software made my job very easy and isn't hard to work with at all. I've had software where it takes time and effort and thrift is extremely simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apache Thrift?

I do believe that some more languages could be added at an easier find but I'm sure this is a quick fix Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.