Decision Workspace
memberlist vs foca vs serf
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
49
memberlist
growingv0.7.0
A highly customable, adaptable, async runtime agnostic gossip protocol which helps manage cluster membership and member failure detection.
61
foca
stablev1.0.0
Gossip-based cluster membership discovery, based on SWIM
53
serf
growingv0.4.1
A decentralized solution for service discovery and orchestration that is lightweight, highly available, and fault tolerant.
Core Metrics
| memberlist | foca | serf | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 49 | 61 | 53 |
| Total Downloads | 25.2K | 132.9K | 2.9K |
| 30d Downloads | 412 | 5.7K | 109 |
| Dependents | 12 | 19 | 0 |
| Releases | 23 | 25 | 4 |
| Last Updated | 143d ago | 114d ago | 115d ago |
| Age | 2y 2m | 4y 4m | 1y 3m |
Health Breakdown
memberlist
Maintenance
12
Quality
11
Community
9
Popularity
5
Documentation
12
foca
Maintenance
13
Quality
17
Community
10
Popularity
6
Documentation
15
serf
Maintenance
13
Quality
18
Community
6
Popularity
4
Documentation
12
Technical Details
| memberlist | foca | serf | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.7.0 | 1.0.0 | 0.4.1 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | ✗ No |
| License | MPL-2.0 | MPL-2.0 | MPL-2.0 |
| Dependencies | 10 | 12 | 5 |
| Crate Size | 56KB | 85KB | 41KB |
| Features | 34 | 5 | 25 |
| Yanked % | 39.1% | 4.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2024 | 2021 | 2024 |
| MSRV | 1.85.0 | 1.81.0 | 1.85.0 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •foca leads with a health score of 61/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •memberlist, serf are pre-1.0 — API may change.