Apache Dubbo vs Redwood: What are the differences?

What is Apache 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.

What is Redwood? An integrated, full-stack, JavaScript web framework for the JAMstack. It is an opinionated, full-stack, serverless web application framework that will allow you to build and deploy JAMstack applications with ease. Imagine a React frontend, statically delivered by CDN, that talks via GraphQL to your backend running on AWS Lambdas around the world, all deployable with just a git push—that's Redwood.

Apache Dubbo and Redwood are primarily classified as "Remote Procedure Call (RPC)" and "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Apache Dubbo are:

• Transparent interface based RPC
• Intelligent load balancing
• Automatic service registration and discovery

On the other hand, Redwood provides the following key features:

• Opinionated defaults for formatting, file organization, webpack, Babel, and more
• Simple but powerful routing (all routes defined in one file) with dynamic (typed) parameters, constraints, and named route functions (to generate correct URLs)
• Automatic page-based code-splitting

Apache Dubbo and Redwood are both open source tools. It seems that Apache Dubbo with 31.5K GitHub stars and 20.6K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Redwood with 2.69K GitHub stars and 75 GitHub forks.