etcd VS Nomad

Compare etcd vs Nomad and see what are their differences.

etcd

Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system (by etcd-io)

Nomad

Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations. (by hashicorp)
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etcd Nomad
61 93
46,086 14,347
1.0% 0.9%
9.9 9.9
1 day ago about 15 hours ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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etcd

Posts with mentions or reviews of etcd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-16.
  • Transitioning from more traditional OOP like C# to Go, what are the biggest coding style differences.
    2 projects | /r/golang | 16 Nov 2023
    Reading the standard library will give you ideas/insight about various Go idiomatic patterns/approaches, and you can see a full website/API implementation in the pkg.go.dev repository (https://github.com/golang/pkgsite). Projects like https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd may be interesting too.
  • Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems: Strategies and Case Studies
    4 projects | dev.to | 18 Oct 2023
    Failure Detection and Recovery It’s not enough to have backup systems. It’s also crucial to detect failures quickly. Modern systems employ monitoring tools and rely on distributed coordination systems such as Zookeeper or etcd to identify faults in real-time: once detected, recovery mechanisms are triggered to restore the service.
  • The Complete Microservices Guide
    17 projects | dev.to | 21 Sep 2023
    Service Discovery: Microservices need to discover and communicate with each other dynamically. Service discovery tools like etcd, Consul, or Kubernetes built-in service discovery mechanisms help locate and connect to microservices running on different nodes within the infrastructure.
  • How is Apache APISIX Fast?
    6 projects | dev.to | 13 Sep 2023
    APISIX uses etcd to store and synchronize configurations.
  • Apache APISIX without etcd
    3 projects | dev.to | 27 Jul 2023
    etcd is an excellent key-value distributed database used internally by Kubernetes and managed by the CNCF. It's a great option, and that's the reason why Apache APISIX uses it too. Yet, it's not devoid of issues.
  • Evaluating Apache APISIX vs. Spring Cloud Gateway
    3 projects | dev.to | 22 Jun 2023
    In traditional mode, APISIX stores its configuration in etcd. APISIX offers a rich API to access and update the configuration, the Admin API. In standalone mode, the configuration is just plain YAML. It's the approach for GitOps practitioners: you'd store your configuration in a Git repo, watch it via your favorite tool (e.g., Argo CD or Tekton), and the latter would propagate the changes to APISIX nodes upon changes. APISIX reloads its configuration every second or so.
  • Implementing a distributed key-value store on top of implementing Raft in Go
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 May 2023
  • RedisRaft
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 May 2023
    I am not sure neither. But this might overcome the etcd's soft storage limit of 8GB? [1]

    [1] https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/9771

  • mTLS everywhere!
    5 projects | dev.to | 23 Mar 2023
    Apache APISIX is an API Gateway. By default, it stores its configuration in etcd, a distributed key-value store - the same one used by Kubernetes. Note that in real-world scenarios, we should set up etcd clustering to improve the resiliency of the solution. For this post, we will limit ourselves to a single etcd instance. Apache APISIX offers an admin API via HTTP endpoints. Finally, the gateway forwards calls from the client to an upstream. Here's an overview of the architecture and the required certificates:
  • Why is the principle stating that "interfaces should belong to the package that uses values of the interface type, not the package that implements those values" sometimes violated?
    2 projects | /r/golang | 19 Feb 2023
    While exploring popular projects such as etcd and especially traefik, I noticed a violation of the principle that states "interfaces should belong to the package that uses values of the interface type, not the package that implements those values." For example, Here we can see that ManagerFactory import Registry interface that placed here and implementations of this interface in the same package, which violates the aforementioned principle. Even if the interface is simply a specification, it should still be defined on the consumer side. Is it considered bad practice to follow what traefik does in this case or I doesn't understand somthing? P.S. I'm newcomer, so sorry if it's silly question.

Nomad

Posts with mentions or reviews of Nomad. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-15.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing etcd and Nomad you can also consider the following projects:

consul - Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

minio - The Object Store for AI Data Infrastructure

Vault - A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management

Rundeck - Enable Self-Service Operations: Give specific users access to your existing tools, services, and scripts

Dkron - Dkron - Distributed, fault tolerant job scheduling system https://dkron.io

Docker Compose - Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

Apache ZooKeeper - Apache ZooKeeper

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

podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

SaltStack - Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Get access to the Salt software package repository here: