.NET Core vs Dubbo: What are the differences?
.NET Core: An Open Source, General-Purpose Development Platform Maintained by Microsoft and the .NET Community. Cross-platform (supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux) and can be used to build device, cloud, and IoT applications; Dubbo: A high performance Java RPC framework. It is a high-performance, light weight, java based RPC framework. Dubbo offers three key functionalities, which include interface based remote call, fault tolerance & load balancing, and automatic service registration & discovery.
.NET Core belongs to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack, while Dubbo can be primarily classified under "Remote Procedure Call (RPC)".
Some of the features offered by .NET Core are:
- Cross-platform
- Consistent across architectures
- Command-line tools
On the other hand, Dubbo provides the following key features:
- Transparent interface based RPC
- Intelligent load balancing
- Automatic service registration and discovery
.NET Core and Dubbo are both open source tools. It seems that Dubbo with 28.4K GitHub stars and 18.7K forks on GitHub has more adoption than .NET Core with 11.4K GitHub stars and 2.49K GitHub forks.