Dubbo VS gRPC

Compare Dubbo vs gRPC and see what are their differences.

Dubbo

The java implementation of Apache Dubbo. An RPC and microservice framework. (by apache)

gRPC

The Java gRPC implementation. HTTP/2 based RPC (by grpc)
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Dubbo gRPC
1 11
39,929 11,104
0.4% 1.0%
9.8 9.6
about 19 hours ago 7 days ago
Java Java
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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Dubbo

Posts with mentions or reviews of Dubbo. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-24.

gRPC

Posts with mentions or reviews of gRPC. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-12.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Dubbo and gRPC you can also consider the following projects:

Netty - Netty project - an event-driven asynchronous network application framework

Finagle - A fault tolerant, protocol-agnostic RPC system

OkHttp - Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.

Undertow - High performance non-blocking webserver

KryoNet - TCP/UDP client/server library for Java, based on Kryo

Async Http Client - Asynchronous Http and WebSocket Client library for Java

gatling-grpc - A Gatling load test plugin for gRPC

sshj - ssh, scp and sftp for java

MINA - Mirror of Apache MINA