A detailed comparison of REST and gRPC

• twirp

  30 6,836 3.5 Go

  A simple RPC framework with protobuf service definitions

  

- Twirp (Twitch light version of gRPC, with optional JSON encoding, HTTP1 support and without streaming) - https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp

• grpcurl

  37 10,165 7.2 Go

  Like cURL, but for gRPC: Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers

  

> What is the ubiquitous utility for interacting with gRPC? We have curl for REST. What is openAPI of gRPC?

grpcurl[1] combined with gRPC server reflection[2]. The schema is compiled into the server as an encoded proto which is exposed via server reflection, which grpcurl reads to send correctly encoded requests.

[1] https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• gRPC

  201 40,820 9.9 C++

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

  

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