Sentinel VS Flowable (V6)

Compare Sentinel vs Flowable (V6) and see what are their differences.

Sentinel

A powerful flow control component enabling reliability, resilience and monitoring for microservices. (面向云原生微服务的高可用流控防护组件) (by alibaba)

Flowable (V6)

A compact and highly efficient workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) platform for developers, system admins and business users. (by flowable)
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Sentinel Flowable (V6)
1 2
21,929 7,376
0.6% 2.3%
7.4 9.4
5 days ago 4 days ago
Java Java
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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Sentinel

Posts with mentions or reviews of Sentinel. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-24.

Flowable (V6)

Posts with mentions or reviews of Flowable (V6). We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-02.
  • Flowable (V6) VS javactrl-kafka - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 2 Feb 2023
  • Do you use Model-Driven Engineering in your jobs?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2021
    I’m doing a lot of exploratory work with BPMN right now.

    I think if your business is largely transactional (think Stripe), there is a lot of value to be had by framing your development as “business process automation”.

    The term (and BPMN) has a lot of enterprise baggage, but some of the tools out there [0][1] are well suited to orchestrating services (and people where necessary) as a single automated process. The the ability to build that flow visually using BPMN, and then execute it in a workflow engine where you can monitor it, audit it, and optimize over time is pretty compelling.

    Here’s an interesting read on the topic: https://www.infoq.com/articles/events-workflow-automation/

    [0] https://github.com/camunda-cloud/zeebe

    [1] https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Sentinel and Flowable (V6) you can also consider the following projects:

Micronaut - Micronaut Application Framework

Camunda BPM - Flexible framework for workflow and decision automation with BPMN and DMN. Integration with Quarkus, Spring, Spring Boot, CDI.

Quarkus - Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

Activiti - Activiti is a light-weight workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) Platform targeted at business people, developers and system admins. Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid BPMN 2 process engine for Java. It's open-source and distributed under the Apache license. Activiti runs in any Java application, on a server, on a cluster or in the cloud. It integrates perfectly with Spring, it is extremely lightweight and based on simple concepts.

bucket4j - Java rate limiting library based on token-bucket algorithm.

jbpm - a Business Process Management (BPM) Suite

Nacos - an easy-to-use dynamic service discovery, configuration and service management platform for building cloud native applications.

cadence - Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.

Hystrix - 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.

javaslang-circuitbreaker - Resilience4j is a fault tolerance library designed for Java8 and functional programming

zeebe - Distributed Workflow Engine for Microservices Orchestration