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MassTransit vs Starling: What are the differences?
What is MassTransit? Lightweight message bus for creating distributed applications. MassTransit is free software/open-source .NET-based Enterprise Service Bus software that helps Microsoft developers route messages over MSMQ, RabbitMQ, TIBCO and ActiveMQ service busses, with native support for MSMQ and RabbitMQ.
What is Starling? A light weight server for reliable distributed message passing. Starling is a powerful but simple messaging server that enables reliable distributed queuing with an absolutely minimal overhead. It speaks the MemCache protocol for maximum cross-platform compatibility. Any language that speaks MemCache can take advantage of Starling's queue facilities.
MassTransit and Starling can be categorized as "Message Queue" tools.
Some of the features offered by MassTransit are:
- Message-based communication
- Reliable
- Scalable
On the other hand, Starling provides the following key features:
- Written by Blaine Cook at Twitter
- Starling is a Message Queue Server based on MemCached
- Written in Ruby
Starling is an open source tool with 467 GitHub stars and 63 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Starling's open source repository on GitHub.
