dapr VS NServiceBus

Compare dapr vs NServiceBus and see what are their differences.

dapr

Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge. (by dapr)

NServiceBus

Build, version, and monitor better microservices with the most powerful service platform for .NET (by Particular)
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dapr NServiceBus
76 4
23,147 2,040
1.2% 1.1%
9.7 9.0
9 days ago 6 days ago
Go C#
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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dapr

Posts with mentions or reviews of dapr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-09.
  • Comparing Azure Functions vs Dapr on Azure Container Apps
    3 projects | dev.to | 9 Oct 2023
    Azure Container Apps hosting of Azure Functions is a way to host Azure Functions directly in Container Apps - additionally to App Service with and without containers. This offering also adds some Container Apps built-in capabilities like the Dapr microservices framework which would allow for mixing microservices workloads on the same environment with Functions.
  • Episode 150: myNewsWrap – SAP and Microsoft
    3 projects | dev.to | 16 Sep 2023
    Having containers is nice but everything (well ... nearly everything 😉) gets better with Dapr as an outstanding tool for app development in the container-based area. Here we go what might be worth a look:
  • Ensuring Seamless Operations: Troubleshooting and Resolving Dapr Certificate Expiry
    2 projects | dev.to | 20 Jul 2023
    A CNCF project, the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) provides APIs that simplify microservice connectivity. Whether your communication pattern is service to service invocation or pub/sub messaging, Dapr helps you write resilient and secured microservices. Essentially, it provides a new way to build microservices by using the reusable blocks implemented as sidecars.
    2 projects | dev.to | 20 Jul 2023
    I had no overview of the Dapr system which caused me a lot of time in trying to get to the root cause. So first thing I did was to create a nice dashboard where we can have an overview of our Dapr services and their certificates. I started from the official one from Grafana for this. But the dashboard is a bit outdated so I had some issues with the queries, so I did some changes and you can find the JSON of the dashboard below if it helps anyone.
  • Modular Architecture Design question | Re-using modules in multiple applications
    3 projects | /r/csharp | 17 May 2023
    I would like to build modules, either in a modular monolith style, or in a microservice style using DAPR and/or Tye.
  • Ask HN: Modern Node.js Request Fault Tolerance Library?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2023
    Just heard about Dapr last week. Might be more than what you are asking, though but it’s probably worth a look.

    https://dapr.io/

  • Creating a Dapr pluggable component for Supabase
    5 projects | dev.to | 25 Apr 2023
    From my perspective, I’d like to explore further how Dapr can integrate with other Supabase features. It would also be great to see a Supabase state store as a built-in component that’s available in the Dapr runtime without the need of running the pluggable component separately. I also hope the proposed DocumentStore building block will get some traction this year, since this will pair up very nicely with Supabase and other PostgreSQL stores.
  • Kv.js
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2023
    Could you use Kubernetes to solve this? Have a single pod running the Redis instance and then multiple running Node.js talking to the Redis instance via something like DAPR (https://dapr.io/)
  • Anything close beam/otp for other languages?
    7 projects | /r/elixir | 7 Apr 2023
    Dapr is also building a workflow orchestrator into their microservice system. It's almost in Beta, and when you combine it with Dapr's Virtual Actors, it looks powerful. It will also let you integrate a workflow engine like Temporal, too. https://dapr.io/
  • (April) - Monthly Shameless Plug
    4 projects | /r/platformengineering | 5 Apr 2023
    This fantastic blog from Mauricio (Salaboy) Salatino shows how tools like Kratix (kratix.io) and Dapr (dapr.io) can help streamline golden paths: https://blog.dapr.io/posts/2023/04/02/creating-dapr-enabled-platforms-with-kratix/

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

MassTransit - Distributed Application Framework for .NET

Rebus - :bus: Simple and lean service bus implementation 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

camel-k - Apache Camel K is a lightweight integration platform, born on Kubernetes, with serverless superpowers

tye - Tye is a tool that makes developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications easier. Project Tye includes a local orchestrator to make developing microservices easier and the ability to deploy microservices to Kubernetes with minimal configuration.

EasyNetQ - An easy to use .NET API for RabbitMQ

OpenFaaS - OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple

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#.