HomaModule VS grpc_homa

Compare HomaModule vs grpc_homa and see what are their differences.

HomaModule

A Linux kernel module that implements the Homa transport protocol. (by PlatformLab)

grpc_homa

Allows Homa to be used as a transport with gRPC. (by PlatformLab)
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HomaModule

Posts with mentions or reviews of HomaModule. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-30.

grpc_homa

Posts with mentions or reviews of grpc_homa. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-21.
  • Is It Time to Replace TCP in Data Centers?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Feb 2023
    This seems like a review of John Ousterhout's work w/ Homa. I highly recommend reading the original. https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00714

    For those who don't know Ousterhout created the first log structured filesystem and created TCL (used heavily in hardware verification but also forming the backbone of the some of the first large web servers: aolserver). I was actually surprised to find out he co-founded a company with the current CTO of Cloudflare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ousterhout

    He has both a candidate replacement as well as benchmarks showing 40% performance improvements with grpc on homa compared to grpc on TCP. https://github.com/PlatformLab/grpc_homa

    With that in mind I think nobody will replace TCP and I doubt anything not IP compatible will be able to get off the ground. His argument is essentially that for low latency RPC protocols TCP is a bad choice.

    We've already seen people build a number of similar systems on UDP including HTTP replacements that have delivered value for clients doing lots of parallel requests on the WAN.

    I think many big tech companies are essentially already choosing to bypass TCP. I recall facebook doing alot of work with memcache on udp. I can't find any public docs on whether or not Google's internal RPC uses TCP.

    I wouldn't be surprised at all if in the near future something like grpc/capnproto/twirp/etc had an in-datacenter TCP-free fast path. It would be cool if it was built on Homa.

  • I just created my first not so basic app in rust! A CLI chat using TCP sockets with Tokio. Anyone willing to do a code review?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 2 Aug 2022
    Also try doing it with Homa protocol. https://github.com/PlatformLab/HomaModule https://github.com/PlatformLab/grpc_homa

What are some alternatives?

When comparing HomaModule and grpc_homa you can also consider the following projects:

efp - A framing protocol bridging the gap between elementary stream data and transport protocols.

gRPC - The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)

kcp-cpp - C++ Wrapper around KCP

rust_chat

cppSRTWrapper - Simple C++ wrapper of the SRT protocol for building Server/Client transport solutions

linux - Linux kernel source tree

KCP - :zap: KCP - A Fast and Reliable ARQ Protocol

NATS - High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.

srt - Secure, Reliable, Transport