gRPC VS RabbitMQ

Compare gRPC vs RabbitMQ and see what are their differences.

gRPC

The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#) (by grpc)

RabbitMQ

Open source RabbitMQ: core server and tier 1 (built-in) plugins (by rabbitmq)
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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 2024-03-09.
  • Reverse Engineering Protobuf Definitions from Compiled Binaries
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2024
    Yes, grpc_cli tool uses essentially the same mechanism except implemented as a grpc service rather than as a stubby service. The basic principle of both is implementing the C++ proto library's DescriptorDatabase interface with cached recursive queries of (usually) the server's compiled in FileDescriptorProtos.

    See also https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/server-reflecti...

    The primary difference between what grpc does and what stubby does is that grpc uses a stream to ensure that the reflection requests all go to the same server to avoid incompatible version skew and duplicate proto transmissions. With that said, in practice version skew is rarely a problem for grpc_cli style "issue a single RPC" usecases: even if requests do go to two or more different versions of a binary that might have incompatible proto graphs, it is very common for the request and response and RPC to all be in the same proto file so you only need to make one RPC in the first place unless you're using an extension mechanism like proto2 extensions or google.protobuf.Any.

  • Delving Deeper: Enriching Microservices with Golang with CloudWeGo
    7 projects | dev.to | 22 Feb 2024
    While gRPC and Apache Thrift have served the microservice architecture well, CloudWeGo's advanced features and performance metrics set it apart as a promising open source solution for the future.
  • gRPC Name Resolution & Load Balancing on Kubernetes: Everything you need to know (and probably a bit more)
    5 projects | dev.to | 6 Feb 2024
    The loadBalancingConfig is what we use in order to decide which policy to go for (round_robin in this case). This JSON representation is based on a protobuf message, then why does the name resolver returns it in the JSON format? The main reason is that loadBalancingConfig is a oneof field inside the proto message and so it can not contain values unknown to the gRPC if used in the proto format. The JSON representation does not have this requirement so we can use a custom loadBalancingConfig .
  • Dart on the Server: Exploring Server-Side Dart Technologies in 2024
    4 projects | dev.to | 30 Jan 2024
    The Dart implementation of gRPC which puts mobile and HTTP/2 first. It's built and maintained by the Dart team. gRPC is a high-performance RPC (remote procedure call) framework that is optimized for efficient data transfer.
  • Usando Spring Boot RestClient
    4 projects | dev.to | 30 Jan 2024
  • How to Build & Deploy Scalable Microservices with NodeJS, TypeScript and Docker || A Comprehesive Guide
    13 projects | dev.to | 25 Jan 2024
    gRPC is a high-performance, open-source RPC (Remote Procedure Call) framework initially developed by Google. It uses Protocol Buffers for serialization and supports bidirectional streaming.
  • Actual SSH over HTTPS
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Dec 2023
    In general, tunneling through HTTP2 turns out to be a great choice. There is a RPC protocol built on top of HTTP2: gRPC[1].

    This is because HTTP2 is great at exploiting a TCP connection to transmit and receive multiple data structures concurrently - multiplexing.

    There may not be a reason to use HTTP3 however, as QUIC already provides multiplexing.

    I expect that in the future most communications will be over encrypted HTTP2 and QUIC simply because middleware creators can not resist to discriminate.

    [1] <https://grpc.io>

  • SGSG (Svelte + Go + SQLite + gRPC) - open source application
    5 projects | /r/sveltejs | 6 Dec 2023
    gRPC
  • Level UP your RDBMS Productivity in GO
    5 projects | dev.to | 5 Dec 2023
    I have decided to use gRPC because it's a very simple protocol and it's very easy to use.
  • Create Production-Ready SDKs with Goa
    9 projects | dev.to | 22 Nov 2023
    Goa generates gRPC code for you. gRPC is an efficient alternative to plain HTTP, over which you can provide your API. It requires the use of protocol buffers, made by Google. Our repository already provides the protoc app for you, in completed_app/lib.

RabbitMQ

Posts with mentions or reviews of RabbitMQ. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-03.
  • A Developer's Journal: Simplifying the Twelve-Factor App
    9 projects | dev.to | 3 Dec 2023
    Messaging/Queueing Systems (Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ, Beanstalkd)
  • FastStream: Python's framework for Efficient Message Queue Handling
    11 projects | dev.to | 16 Oct 2023
    Later, we discovered Propan, a library created by Nikita Pastukhov, which solved similar problems but for RabbitMQ. Recognizing the potential for collaboration, we joined forces with Nikita to build a unified library that could work seamlessly with both Kafka and RabbitMQ. And that's how FastStream came to be—a solution born out of the need for simplicity and efficiency in microservices development.
  • The Complete Microservices Guide
    17 projects | dev.to | 21 Sep 2023
    Inter-Service Communication: Middleware provides communication channels and protocols that enable microservices to communicate with each other. This can include message brokers like RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, RPC frameworks like gRPC, or RESTful APIs.
  • Project Structure Review [.Net] [Console]
    2 projects | /r/PinoyProgrammer | 19 Sep 2023
    This is an implementation of pub/sub. The publisher is on a separate project. The message broker is Azure Service Bus. We use NServiceBus for code implementation. I use rabbitMQ broker for local tests. Nothing I can do about the tech stack. This is more of a high level single project structure review 😅
  • The Role of Queues in Building Efficient Distributed Applications
    4 projects | dev.to | 10 Aug 2023
    RabbitMQ is a robust and highly configurable open-source message broker that implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP).
  • Should I chain calls in backend?
    2 projects | /r/node | 30 Jun 2023
    When using third-party services, especially within a "transaction", it's often a good idea to use a persistent Message Queue (MQ) system like RabbitMQ. Go through all their tutorials to get a really good understanding of how message queues work and how they can be used to solve your problem.
  • Node still seems better than python after all this time for web server speed but..
    3 projects | /r/node | 20 Jun 2023
  • Delayed events pattern, no more crons
    2 projects | dev.to | 8 Jun 2023
    The best technical solution to provide the event queues is to use a message-broker technology like RabbitMQ.
  • Exploring Async PHP
    6 projects | dev.to | 31 May 2023
    The use of queues such as Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ or Apache Kafka has been a widely accepted solution for some time.
  • Best way to schedule events and handle them in the future?
    9 projects | /r/golang | 25 May 2023
    You're better off with something really, really straightforward, like AWS Simple Queue Service or SQS or RabbitMQ, which are two very popular message queues. (The "MQ" part means Message Queue, in case that wasn't obvious). There are a lot of these out there, including ActiveMQ, IronMQ, and others. Pick the one that makes the most sense to you.

What are some alternatives?

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

ZeroMQ - ZeroMQ core engine in C++, implements ZMTP/3.1

Apache Thrift - Apache Thrift

Cap'n Proto - Cap'n Proto serialization/RPC system - core tools and C++ library

NATS - High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.

mosquitto - Eclipse Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker

zeroRPC - zerorpc for python

MediatR - Simple, unambitious mediator implementation in .NET

rpclib - rpclib is a modern C++ msgpack-RPC server and client library

nanomsg - nanomsg library

nsq - A realtime distributed messaging platform

RPyC - RPyC (Remote Python Call) - A transparent and symmetric RPC library for python

asio-grpc - Asynchronous gRPC with Asio/unified executors