raft VS serf

Compare raft vs serf and see what are their differences.

raft

Golang implementation of the Raft consensus protocol (by hashicorp)

serf

Service orchestration and management tool. (by hashicorp)
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raft serf
7 1
7,828 5,782
1.3% 0.4%
6.1 5.8
11 days ago 25 days ago
Go Go
Mozilla Public License 2.0 Mozilla Public License 2.0
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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.

serf

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

What are some alternatives?

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

tendermint - ⟁ Tendermint Core (BFT Consensus) in Go

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.

torrent - Full-featured BitTorrent client package and utilities

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

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

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

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

DHT - BitTorrent DHT Protocol && DHT Spider.

gocelery - Celery Distributed Task Queue in Go

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