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Akka vs Orleans: 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, Orleans is detailed as "An approach to building distributed applications in .NET". Orleans is a framework that provides a straightforward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications, without the need to learn and apply complex concurrency or other scaling patterns. It was created by Microsoft Research and designed for use in the cloud.
Akka and Orleans can be categorized as "Concurrency Frameworks" tools.
Akka and Orleans are both open source tools. It seems that Akka with 9.99K GitHub stars and 3.03K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Orleans with 5.08K GitHub stars and 1.24K GitHub forks.
Pros of Akka
- Great concurrency model32
- Fast17
- Actor Library12
- Open source10
- Resilient7
- Message driven5
- Scalable5
Pros of Orleans
- Akka.net alternative5
- Async/Await5
- Open source4
- Distributed ACID Transactions4
- Scalable4
- Distributed high-scale computing applications4
- Virtual Actor Model4
- Objects3
- Cross Platform3
- Distributed Locking3
- Fast2
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Cons of Akka
- Mixing futures with Akka tell is difficult3
- Closing of futures2
- No type safety2
- Very difficult to refactor1
- Typed actors still not stable1