Top 6 D-Bus Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. In addition to interprocess communication, D-Bus helps coordinate process lifecycle; it makes it simple and reliable to code a "single instance" application or daemon, and to launch applications and daemons on demand when their services are needed.

1. nanomsg

nanomsg nanomsg is a socket library that provides several common communication patterns. It aims to make the networking layer fast, scalable, and easy to use. Implemented in C, it works on a wide range of operating systems with no further dependencies.......

2. ØMQ

ØMQ ØMQ is a high-performance asynchronous messaging library aimed at use in scalable distributed or concurrent applications. It provides a message queue, but unlike message-oriented middleware, a ØMQ system can run without a dedicated message broker. The library is designed to have a familiar socket-style API.......

3. Apache Thrift

Apache Thrift 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, Delphi, ActionScript and other languages.......

4. ubus

ubus User space inter process communication that adheres to the Unix philosophy.......

5. Ice

Ice The Internet Communications Engine (Ice) is a modern distributed computing platform with support for C++, .NET, Java, Python, Objective-C, Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript. Ice is used in mission-critical projects by companies all over the world. Ice takes care of all interactions with low-level network programming interfaces and allows you to......

6. nimrod-ipc

nimrod-ipc A simple API for interprocess communication for java using ZeroMQ.ZeroMQ supports many advanced messaging scenarios. This API covers two major use-cases which I find useful when developing enterprise/distributed applications whilst requiring minimal configuration and code to use these features :1) Remote method invocation : A thread in running in one......