Spring Framework vs Dubbo: What are the differences?
What is Spring Framework? An application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform. It provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform
The framework's core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions for building web applications on top of the Java EE platform..
What is 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.
Spring Framework and Dubbo are primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" and "Remote Procedure Call (RPC)" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Spring Framework are:
- Lightweight
- Dependency Injection
- Transaction Management
On the other hand, Dubbo provides the following key features:
- Transparent interface based RPC
- Intelligent load balancing
- Automatic service registration and discovery
Spring Framework and Dubbo are both open source tools. It seems that Spring Framework with 31.4K GitHub stars and 20.2K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Dubbo with 28.4K GitHub stars and 18.7K GitHub forks.