Apache Dubbo vs Saturn: 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 Saturn? Opinionated, web development framework for F# which implements the server-side, functional MVC pattern. It is a web development framework written in F# which implements the server-side MVC pattern. Many of its components and concepts will seem familiar to anyone with experience in other web frameworks like Ruby on Rails or Python’s Django.

Apache Dubbo belongs to "Remote Procedure Call (RPC)" category of the tech stack, while Saturn can be primarily classified under "Frameworks (Full Stack)".

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, Saturn provides the following key features:

• Combines the well known MVC pattern with the power of FP and F# to make web programming fun and easy
• Builds on top of highly optimized, and battle tested technologies such as ASP.NET Core, Giraffe and Kestrel
• Provides set of tools, templates and guides that makes creating and maintaining applications seamlessly

Apache Dubbo is an open source tool with 30.1K GitHub stars and 19.8K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Apache Dubbo's open source repository on GitHub.