Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport. Java and C++ clients are available in this repository, and a .NET client is available from a 3rd party. All three clients can exchange messages across machines, or on the same machine via IPC, very efficiently. Message streams can be recorded by the Archive module to persistent storage for later, or real-time, replay. Aeron Cluster provides support for fault-tolerant services as replicated state machines based on the Raft consensus algorithm. Performance is the key focus. A design goal for Aeron is to be the highest throughput with the lowest and most predictable latency of any messaging system. Aeron integrates with Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) for the best possible message encoding and decoding performance. Many of the data structures used in the creation of Aeron have been factored out to the Agrona project.
Features
- Build the project with Gradle
- Requires the Java 8+ to build Aeron
- Aeron support is available for 64-bit Linux, OSX, and Windows
- By default, the C Media Driver is built as part of the C++ Build
- Multiple client threads can be reading from, or write to, the channel at any given moment in time
- High-throughput and low-latency communication for unicast and multicast