raft VS sarama

Compare raft vs sarama and see what are their differences.

raft

Golang implementation of the Raft consensus protocol (by hashicorp)

sarama

Sarama is a Go library for Apache Kafka. [Moved to: https://github.com/IBM/sarama] (by Shopify)
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raft sarama
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6.1 8.6
1 day ago 9 months ago
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raft

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

sarama

Posts with mentions or reviews of sarama. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-13.
  • Ingesting Data into OpenSearch using Apache Kafka and Go
    6 projects | dev.to | 13 Jul 2023
    Note: Since there are multiple Go clients for Kafka (including Sarama), please make sure to consult their client documentation to confirm whether they support IAM authentication.
  • book about golang and kafka
    6 projects | /r/golang | 4 Jun 2023
    You might want to gradually replace that one with https://github.com/twmb/franz-go because Shopify is looking to find a new owner for Sarama and, until or if they do, it seems to be falling behind with maintenance: https://github.com/Shopify/sarama/issues/2461 For example, they still haven’t addressed this breaking change https://github.com/Shopify/sarama/issues/2358. franz-go has worked well so far in Benthos https://github.com/benthosdev/benthos/tree/main/internal/impl/kafka and it will likely end up as the only implementation once the Sarama-based one will be deprecated
  • Klient - a native, statically-compiled, command line client for Kafka
    3 projects | /r/golang | 10 Feb 2023
    I've used mainly sarama wrapped with a bit of bespoke helper libraries. Never really looked into others, just grabbed one that was actively maintained and went for it.
  • Golang bad design reference
    6 projects | /r/golang | 23 Nov 2022
    Well, as someone who reviews a lot of code, I don't like seeing 100s of little files when a handful of logically grouped files would do. For example, this popular go project: https://github.com/Shopify/sarama is currently 256 small .go files, largely following a one class/file rule.
  • Concurrency in Go is hard
    2 projects | dev.to | 29 Aug 2022
    The first example is something we ran into while working on a project. Up until recently, the sarama library (Go library for Apache Kafka) contained the following piece of code (at sarama/version.go):
  • Benthos - Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane
    4 projects | /r/dataengineering | 8 Jun 2022
    If you find the kafka input slow, try kafka_franz. It might be a bit faster, since it’s based on https://github.com/twmb/franz-go. The kafka one is based on https://github.com/Shopify/sarama. You can also write a custom input based on https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go, but this library relies on CGo, which can be annoying.
  • Understanding Kafka with Factorio
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2021
  • Is segmentio/kafka-go production ready ?
    2 projects | /r/apachekafka | 1 Jun 2021
    There are a few factors that are stopping me from using kafka-go over Shopify's sarama.
  • Is there an alternative to Kafka that has better support in Rust?
    7 projects | /r/rust | 17 Apr 2021
  • Kafka manual commit problem
    4 projects | /r/apachekafka | 2 Mar 2021
    Here are our test results to find the root cause. https://github.com/Shopify/sarama/issues/1894#issuecomment-789427055

What are some alternatives?

When comparing raft and sarama you can also consider the following projects:

Confluent Kafka Golang Client - Confluent's Apache Kafka Golang client

kafka-go - Kafka library in Go

franz-go - franz-go contains a feature complete, pure Go library for interacting with Kafka from 0.8.0 through 3.6+. Producing, consuming, transacting, administrating, etc.

serf - Service orchestration and management tool.

tendermint - ⟁ Tendermint Core (BFT Consensus) in Go

torrent - Full-featured BitTorrent client package and utilities

dragonboat - A feature complete and high performance multi-group Raft library in Go.

etcd - Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system [Moved to: https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd]

DHT - BitTorrent DHT Protocol && DHT Spider.

ringpop-go - Scalable, fault-tolerant application-layer sharding for Go applications

grpc-go - The Go language implementation of gRPC. HTTP/2 based RPC

librdkafka - The Apache Kafka C/C++ library