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  5. Ethereum vs Web3j

Ethereum vs Web3j

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Overview

Ethereum
Ethereum
Stacks875
Followers463
Votes13
GitHub Stars13.6K
Forks5.9K
Web3j
Web3j
Stacks43
Followers39
Votes0

Ethereum vs Web3j: What are the differences?

What is Ethereum? Open source platform to write and distribute decentralized applications. A decentralized platform for applications that run exactly as programmed without any chance of fraud, censorship or third-party interference.

What is Web3j? Lightweight Java and Android library for integration with Ethereum clients. It is a lightweight, highly modular, reactive, type safe Java and Android library for working with Smart Contracts and integrating with clients (nodes) on the Ethereum network. This allows you to work with the Ethereum blockchain, without the additional overhead of having to write your own integration code for the platform.

Ethereum belongs to "Blockchain" category of the tech stack, while Web3j can be primarily classified under "Java Tools".

Ethereum is an open source tool with 4.84K GitHub stars and 1.73K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Ethereum's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

Ethereum
Ethereum
Web3j
Web3j

A decentralized platform for applications that run exactly as programmed without any chance of fraud, censorship or third-party interference.

It is a lightweight, highly modular, reactive, type safe Java and Android library for working with Smart Contracts and integrating with clients (nodes) on the Ethereum network. This allows you to work with the Ethereum blockchain, without the additional overhead of having to write your own integration code for the platform.

Platform for decentralized applications; Global, and open-source
Complete implementation of Ethereum's JSON-RPC client API over HTTP and IPC; Ethereum wallet support; Auto-generation of Java smart contract wrappers to create, deploy, transact with and call smart contracts from native Java code (Solidity and Truffle definition formats supported); Reactive-functional API for working with filters; Ethereum Name Service (ENS) support; Support for Parity's Personal, and Geth's Personal client APIs; Support for Infura, so you don't have to run an Ethereum client yourself
Statistics
GitHub Stars
13.6K
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
5.9K
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
875
Stacks
43
Followers
463
Followers
39
Votes
13
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 7
    Decentralized blockchain, most famous platform for DApp
  • 2
    Rich smart contract execution environment
  • 2
    #2 on capitalization after Bitcoin
  • 2
    Resistant to hash power attacks
Cons
  • 1
    High fees and lacks scalability
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Python
Python
Rust
Rust
Linux
Linux
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macOS

What are some alternatives to Ethereum, Web3j?

Quarkus

Quarkus

It tailors your application for GraalVM and HotSpot. Amazingly fast boot time, incredibly low RSS memory (not just heap size!) offering near instant scale up and high density memory utilization in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. We use a technique we call compile time boot.

MyBatis

MyBatis

It is a first class persistence framework with support for custom SQL, stored procedures and advanced mappings. It eliminates almost all of the JDBC code and manual setting of parameters and retrieval of results. It can use simple XML or Annotations for configuration and map primitives, Map interfaces and Java POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) to database records.

Hyperledger Fabric

Hyperledger Fabric

It is a collaborative effort created to advance blockchain technology by identifying and addressing important features and currently missing requirements. It leverages container technology to host smart contracts called “chaincode” that comprise the application logic of the system.

guava

guava

The Guava project contains several of Google's core libraries that we rely on in our Java-based projects: collections, caching, primitives support, concurrency libraries, common annotations, string processing, I/O, and so forth.

Thymeleaf

Thymeleaf

It is a modern server-side Java template engine for both web and standalone environments. It is aimed at creating elegant web code while adding powerful features and retaining prototyping abilities.

JSF

JSF

It is used for building component-based user interfaces for web applications and was formalized as a standard through the Java Community

Tendermint

Tendermint

It is a software which can be used to achieve Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) in any distributed computing platforms. It consists of two chief technical components: a blockchain consensus engine and a generic application interface.

MultiChain

MultiChain

It is a platform that helps users to establish a certain private Blockchains that can be used by the organizations for financial transactions.

JavaMelody

JavaMelody

It is used to monitor Java or Java EE application servers in QA and production environments. It is not a tool to simulate requests from users, it is a tool to measure and calculate statistics on real operation of an application depending on the usage of the application by users. It is mainly based on statistics of requests and on evolution charts.

RxJava

RxJava

A library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs by using observable sequences for the Java VM.

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