guava vs Node.js: What are the differences?
Developers describe guava as "Google Core Libraries for Java 6+". 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. On the other hand, Node.js is detailed as "A platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications". Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
guava and Node.js are primarily classified as "Java" and "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools respectively.
"Interface Driven API" is the top reason why over 2 developers like guava, while over 1321 developers mention "Npm" as the leading cause for choosing Node.js.
guava and Node.js are both open source tools. It seems that Node.js with 35.5K GitHub stars and 7.78K forks on GitHub has more adoption than guava with 32.5K GitHub stars and 7.28K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Node.js has a broader approval, being mentioned in 4104 company stacks & 4040 developers stacks; compared to guava, which is listed in 14 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.