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Apache Thrift Alternatives

Apache Thrift is described as 'The Apache Thrift software framework, for scalable cross-language services development, combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa' and is an app. There are five alternatives to Apache Thrift for Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Android. The best alternative is Protocol Buffers, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Apache Thrift are Ice, MessagePack, The Melange Language Workbench and Avro.

This page was last updated Mar 23, 2020
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  • Free • Open Source
  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • BSD

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  1. Protocol Buffers

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    • Free • Open Source
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    • Android
    • BSD

      Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler.

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    • Ice

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      • Free • Open Source
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      The Internet Communications Engine (Ice) is a modern distributed computing platform with support for C++, .NET, Java, Python, Objective-C, Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript.

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    • MessagePack

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      • Free • Open Source
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        MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization specification that lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON but quicker and with a lower overhead.

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      • The Melange Language Workbench

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        • Free • Open Source
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          Melange is a language workbench that provides a modular approach for customizing, assembling and integrating multiple domain-specific language (DSL) specifications and implementations.

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        • Avro

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          • Free • Open Source
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          Apache Avro™ is a data serialization system. Avro provides: A compact, fast, binary data format. A container file, to store persistent data. Remote procedure call (RPC).

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