Netty vs Apache MINA

Question

They both provide roughly the same functionality. Which one should I choose to develop my high-performance TCP server? What are the pros & cons?

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Answer 1

I performance tested 2 "Google Protobuffer RPC" implementations where one was based on Netty (netty-protobuf-rpc) and the other based on mina (protobuf-mina-rpc). Netty ended up being consistently faster ( +- 10% ) for all message sizes - which backs up the overall performance claim on the Netty web site. Since you want to squeeze every bit of efficiency out of your code when you use such an RPC library, i ended up writing protobuf-rpc-pro based on Netty. I have used MINA in the past, but find their documentation of the 2.0 stuff has big holes, and the breaking of API backward compatibility a big minus.