Akka VS Akka.net

Compare Akka vs Akka.net and see what are their differences.

Akka.net

Canonical actor model implementation for .NET with local + distributed actors in C# and F#. (by akkadotnet)
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Akka Akka.net
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12,905 4,593
0.3% 0.7%
9.4 9.3
7 days ago 6 days ago
Scala C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Akka

Posts with mentions or reviews of Akka. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
  • Modern Async Primitives on iOS, Android, and the Web
    4 projects | dev.to | 6 Dec 2023
    Kotlin also has a construct for asynchronous collections/streams. Kotlin's version of AsyncSequence is called a Flow. Just as Swift's AsyncSequence builds upon prior experience with RxSwift and Combine, Kotlin's Flow APIs build upon earlier stream/collection APIs in the JVM ecosystem: Java's RxJava, Java8 Streams, Project Reactor, and Scala's Akka.
  • What are the current hot topics in type theory and static analysis?
    15 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 8 May 2023
    First-class distributed and multicore computing. Swift has first-class “actors” and “distributed” methods. Unison, Erlang, and Elixir are built with distributed being one of the #1 concerns. Though first-class is not super common and I don't really expect it to be because usually libraries are enough (e.g. Scala has Akka and is used WIDELY for distributed); whereas something like linear types and typed effects, you can't emulate in a library.
  • Anything close beam/otp for other languages?
    7 projects | /r/elixir | 7 Apr 2023
    Akka is a library that implements the actor model for JVM languages. Mainly in Scala, but you can use it in Java too, and maybe others. It doesn't feel as ergonomic as Elixir, but if Elixir is too "out there" for the decision makers in your case, this might be a friendlier alternative.
  • Carl Hewitt has died [pdf]
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2023
  • About Elixir and the microservices architecture
    3 projects | dev.to | 14 Dec 2022
    Note Akka, the Java & friends framework, is working with the actor model and have as main inspiration Erlang to mimic some features of the BEAM on top of the JVM.
  • Akka will no longer be Open Source
    2 projects | dev.to | 10 Sep 2022
    If I hear about Actor model, the first thing that comes to my mind is the popular Open Source library Akka.
    2 projects | dev.to | 10 Sep 2022
    Lightbend, the company owning Akka, recently shared a blog post signed by the CEO announcing a license change from Apache 2.0 to Business Source License 1.1, a proprietary license. You can already find it in this PR, merged a couple days ago.
  • Why We Are Changing the License for Akka
    2 projects | /r/scala | 7 Sep 2022
    Akka 2.6 is on the open source Apache license, that is unchanged (its not possible for Lightbend to change an existing license). Its only the new Akka 2.7 which has the BSL license, so as long as you don't upgrade you are fine. See https://github.com/akka/akka/pull/31561.
  • We Are Changing the License for Akka
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2022
    Here is Akka's dependency specification: https://github.com/akka/akka/blob/main/project/Dependencies....

    How many of these would have to opt for this source available approach before Akka would no longer be sustainable?

    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2022
    I don't think that the Akka change is aimed at cloud providers. Akka is a toolkit for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications for Java and Scala [1]. It's not possible for AWS to offer their own "Akka service" the way they offered Redis through ElastiCache. This change affects companies that build software using Akka, many of which may not be software-focused. For example, here's a case study of an oilfield services company that uses Akka:

    https://www.lightbend.com/blog/low-cpu-utilization-fortune-5...

    [1] As found on https://akka.io/

Akka.net

Posts with mentions or reviews of Akka.net. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-20.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Akka and Akka.net you can also consider the following projects:

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

protoactor-dotnet - Proto Actor - Ultra fast distributed actors for Go, C# and Java/Kotlin

Apache ZooKeeper - Apache ZooKeeper

Hazelcast - Hazelcast is a unified real-time data platform combining stream processing with a fast data store, allowing customers to act instantly on data-in-motion for real-time insights.

Orleankka - Functional API for Microsoft Orleans http://orleanscontrib.github.io/Orleankka

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.

Orleans - Cloud Native application framework for .NET

JGroups - The JGroups project

.NET port of LMAX Disruptor - Port of LMAX Disruptor to .NET

Lagom - Reactive Microservices for the JVM

Atomix - A Kubernetes toolkit for building distributed applications using cloud native principles

Finagle - A fault tolerant, protocol-agnostic RPC system