rabbus vs NATS

rabbus

A tiny wrapper over amqp exchanges and queues 🚌 ✨ (by rafaeljesus)

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NATS

Golang client for NATS, the cloud native messaging system. (by nats-io)

Messaging Go Golang Nats Microservices microservices-architecture pub-sub cloud-native cloud-native-architectures cloud-native-microservices

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rabbus		NATS
	Project
-	Mentions	11
97	Stars	5,136
-	Growth	2.0%
0.0	Activity	9.1
almost 5 years ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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rabbus

Posts with mentions or reviews of rabbus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning rabbus yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

NATS

Posts with mentions or reviews of NATS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-21.

High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jul 2023
Asyncapi with Go
1 project | /r/golang | 9 Dec 2022
What is the coolest Go open source projects you have seen?
84 projects | /r/golang | 15 Sep 2022

nats: Golang client for NATS, the cloud native messaging system
Distributed communication patterns with NATS
3 projects | dev.to | 3 Mar 2022

Install the nats.go package
Redis vs. Kafka vs. RabbitMQ
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2022
Distributed messaging with NATS
7 projects | dev.to | 20 Jan 2022

Now that our NATS server is running, we'll be using Go and Node.js clients to connect to it for simple demonstration. Not familiar with Go or Node? Don't worry NATS has clients available in over 40 languages!
How do I build a text editor like notepad using wails
9 projects | /r/golang | 5 Nov 2021
Plugins vs Microservices
1 project | /r/golang | 1 Nov 2021

You can build monolith applications and if they need cross communication, rely on something like Nats: https://github.com/nats-io/nats.go
Modern Communication: Sockets
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Sep 2021
Subscription management in pub/sub system
3 projects | /r/golang | 9 Mar 2021

You could start by looking/reading how it is implemented in production ala https://github.com/nats-io/nats.go

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rabbus and NATS you can also consider the following projects:

rabtap - RabbitMQ wire tap and swiss army knife

nsq - A realtime distributed messaging platform

go-events - :mega: Pure nodejs EventEmmiter for the Go Programming Language.

Centrifugo - Scalable real-time messaging server in a language-agnostic way. Self-hosted alternative to Pubnub, Pusher, Ably. Set up once and forever.

Benthos - Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane

EventBus - [Go] Lightweight eventbus with async compatibility for Go

zmq4 - A Go interface to ZeroMQ version 4

go-nsq - The official Go package for NSQ

dbus - Native Go bindings for D-Bus

emitter - Emits events in Go way, with wildcard, predicates, cancellation possibilities and many other good wins