RxJava VS Reactive Streams

Compare RxJava vs Reactive Streams and see what are their differences.

RxJava

RxJava – Reactive Extensions for the JVM – a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM. (by ReactiveX)

Reactive Streams

Reactive Streams Specification for the JVM (by reactive-streams)
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RxJava Reactive Streams
15 16
47,597 4,736
0.3% 0.4%
8.4 1.9
1 day ago 16 days ago
Java Java
Apache License 2.0 MIT No Attribution
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RxJava

Posts with mentions or reviews of RxJava. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-16.

Reactive Streams

Posts with mentions or reviews of Reactive Streams. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-10.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing RxJava and Reactive Streams you can also consider the following projects:

Mutiny - An Intuitive Event-Driven Reactive Programming Library for Java

Reactor

Vert.x - Vert.x is a tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM

EventBus - Event bus for Android and Java that simplifies communication between Activities, Fragments, Threads, Services, etc. Less code, better quality.

RxAndroid - RxJava bindings for Android

otto

reactor-core - Non-Blocking Reactive Foundation for the JVM

rsocket-java - Java implementation of RSocket

ea-async - EA Async implements async-await methods in the JVM.