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Apache Thrift vs Erlang: What are the differences?
What is Apache Thrift? Software framework for scalable cross-language services development. The Apache Thrift software framework, for scalable cross-language services development, combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa, JavaScript, Node.js, Smalltalk, OCaml and Delphi and other languages.
What is Erlang? A programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. Some of Erlang's uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. OTP is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing middle-ware to develop these systems.
Apache Thrift belongs to "Serialization Frameworks" category of the tech stack, while Erlang can be primarily classified under "Languages".
Apache Thrift and Erlang are both open source tools. Erlang with 7.7K GitHub stars and 2.09K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Apache Thrift with 6.42K GitHub stars and 2.94K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Erlang has a broader approval, being mentioned in 70 company stacks & 45 developers stacks; compared to Apache Thrift, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.
Pros of Apache Thrift
Pros of Erlang
- Real time, distributed applications62
- Concurrency Support62
- Fault tolerance58
- Soft real-time36
- Open source32
- Message passing22
- Functional programming22
- Immutable data16
- Works as expected14
- Facebook chat uses it at backend6
- Practical5
- Knowledgeable community5
- Bullets included4
- WhatsApp uses it at backend1
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Cons of Apache Thrift
Cons of Erlang
- Languange is not popular demand1
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