NServiceBus VS Rebus

Compare NServiceBus vs Rebus and see what are their differences.

NServiceBus

Build, version, and monitor better microservices with the most powerful service platform for .NET (by Particular)

Rebus

:bus: Simple and lean service bus implementation for .NET (by rebus-org)
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NServiceBus Rebus
4 16
2,040 2,223
1.1% 1.2%
9.0 8.2
6 days ago 7 days ago
C# C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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NServiceBus

Posts with mentions or reviews of NServiceBus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-19.

Rebus

Posts with mentions or reviews of Rebus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-09.
  • Message Queueing
    5 projects | /r/dotnet | 9 Mar 2023
    I can recommend Rebus: https://github.com/rebus-org/Rebus – it’s the one I know best, because I made most of it 🤠 and it even has a Pro option, if you feel like upgrading in that direction too some time in the future.
  • how do you develop locally using Azure Service Bus?
    2 projects | /r/dotnetcore | 23 Jan 2023
    The whole trick is that that's the headache of the implementor of the abstraction 😅 (e.g. me, if you're using Rebus).
  • Agnostic Messaging Provider - Azure/Google/AWS
    3 projects | /r/dotnet | 12 Jan 2023
    Rebus (https://github.com/rebus-org/Rebus)
  • Which library do you use for message bus abstraction?
    4 projects | /r/dotnet | 28 Dec 2021
  • Pub Sub Framework Recomendations?
    3 projects | /r/csharp | 29 Jan 2021
    For multiprocess application (multiple services, containerized and also natives) I've used ReBus (https://github.com/rebus-org/Rebus) which was is API-compatible (for some version) with NServiceBus. We first used NServiceBus with RabbitMQ (Sagas stored in SqlServer) and then after migration to ReBus also messages and queues were in SqlServer.
  • Long-running business processes in F# with Rebus on Azure
    15 projects | dev.to | 15 Dec 2020
    Aside: Why are we messing around with the getters and setters for the Id and Revision properties in OnboardingSagaData? Well, by default, Rebus serialises to JSON (although you can choose another format, such as Protobuf and other (see here for more details)). In F#, all interfaces are explicit and so, to ensure that the JSON serialiser picks up the saga data's Id and Revision properties, we need to add some additional code so that we can see those properties from the interface and from a plain instance.
    15 projects | dev.to | 15 Dec 2020
    As you'd expect, there is superb support for testing too!
    15 projects | dev.to | 15 Dec 2020
    Compressing and encrypting the contents of messages
    15 projects | dev.to | 15 Dec 2020
    Controlling how Rebus serialises messages.
    15 projects | dev.to | 15 Dec 2020
    Controlling the number of workers and parallelism.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing NServiceBus and Rebus you can also consider the following projects:

MassTransit - Distributed Application Framework for .NET

Hangfire - An easy way to perform background job processing in .NET and .NET Core applications. No Windows Service or separate process required

RabbitMQ.NET - RabbitMQ .NET client for .NET Standard 2.0+ and .NET 4.6.2+

Kafka Client

EasyNetQ - An easy to use .NET API for RabbitMQ

CAP - Distributed transaction solution in micro-service base on eventually consistency, also an eventbus with Outbox pattern

Brighter - A framework for building messaging apps with .NET and C#.