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Akka vs NServiceBus: What are the differences?

Developers describe Akka as "Build powerful concurrent & distributed applications more easily". Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM. On the other hand, NServiceBus is detailed as "*Enterprise-grade scalability and reliability for your workflows and integrations *". Performance, scalability, pub/sub, reliable integration, workflow orchestration, and everything else you could possibly want in a service bus.

Akka can be classified as a tool in the "Concurrency Frameworks" category, while NServiceBus is grouped under "Message Queue".

Akka is an open source tool with 10.2K GitHub stars and 3.07K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Akka's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Akka has a broader approval, being mentioned in 102 company stacks & 301 developers stacks; compared to NServiceBus, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Pros of Akka
Pros of NServiceBus
  • 32
    Great concurrency model
  • 17
    Fast
  • 12
    Actor Library
  • 10
    Open source
  • 7
    Resilient
  • 5
    Message driven
  • 5
    Scalable
  • 1
    Not as good as alternatives, good job security
  • 1
    Brings on-prem issues to the cloud

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Cons of Akka
Cons of NServiceBus
  • 3
    Mixing futures with Akka tell is difficult
  • 2
    Closing of futures
  • 2
    No type safety
  • 1
    Very difficult to refactor
  • 1
    Typed actors still not stable
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    What is Akka?

    Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM.

    What is NServiceBus?

    Performance, scalability, pub/sub, reliable integration, workflow orchestration, and everything else you could possibly want in a service bus.

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      Kafka
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