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24 alternatives to Sockudo

High-performance Pusher alternative in Rust

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

1. 1
   Second State VM▲78

   High performance secure & portable Rust functions in Node.js

   2020 · its alternatives →

2. 2DA
   DriftDB – an open source WebSocket backend for real-time apps▲367

   Hey HN! I’ve written a bunch of WebSocket servers over the years to do simple things like state synchronization, WebRTC signaling, and notifying a client when a backend job was run. I realized that if I had a simple way to create a private, temporary, mini-redis that the client could talk to directly, it would save a lot of time. So we created DriftDB. In addition to the open source server that you can run yourself, we also provide https://jamsocket.live where you can use an instance we host on Cloudflare’s edge (~13ms round trip latency from my home in NY). You may have seen my…

   2023 · driftdb.com · its alternatives →

3. 3SI
   SocketCluster.io – flexible open-source real-time server with pub/sub▲217

   2016 · socketcluster.io · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Socketo▲2

   Pusher-compatible, serverless WebSockets for developers.

   May 2026 · socketo.dev · its alternatives →

5. 5
   SocketCluster▲93

   A scalable realtime engine for Node.js

   2015 · its alternatives →

6. 6ZS
   Zaplib – Speed up your webapp with Rust+Wasm▲175

   2022 · zaplib.com · its alternatives →

7. 7WA
   Wsta – a CLI for working with WebSockets written in Rust▲85

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8HH
   Ht – HTTPie Clone in Rust▲251

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9SR
   SwimOS Rust – A framework for real-time streaming data applications▲71

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

10. 10RL
    rallyup – Lightweight Wake-on-LAN Scheduler▲141

    Hi HN, I’ve wanted a simple solution to handle Wake-on-LAN sequences for my home and work labs to boot up servers in the right order. I was already dabbling in Rust and thought this would be an interesting project to dive deeper and see if it could work well for this kind of network tool. The result is rallyup. rallyup lets you set up server dependencies in a YAML file, so each service (e.g., firewalls, storage, VM hosts) comes online in the right order. It verifies each server’s status before moving to the next. Features: - Dependency-based WOL with VLAN support - Built-in health checks…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

11. 11HA
    Halloy – A GUI Application in Rust for IRC▲172

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12RA
    RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust▲114

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

13. 13WP
    WolfStack – Proxmox-like server management in a single Rust binary▲32

    Mar 2026 · wolfscale.org · its alternatives →

14. 14PA
    Pushpin – A new way to build realtime HTTP and WebSocket services▲114

    2015 · pushpin.org · its alternatives →

15. 15
    I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries▲115

    I built a DNS resolver that lets me use https://frontend.numa instead of localhost:5173 — auto-generated TLS certs, WebSocket passthrough, path routing. No mkcert, no nginx, no /etc/hosts.

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Pulse▲90

    Lightweight real-time polls - open source & self-hosted

    Mar 2026 · demo.pulse.kartikeybhardwaj.com · its alternatives →

17. 17IM
    I'm rewriting a web server written in Rust for speed and ease of use▲68

    Hello! I got quite some feedback on a web server I'm building, so I'm rewriting the server to be faster and easier to use. I (and maybe some other contributors?) have optimized the web server performance, especially for static file serving and reverse proxying (the last use case I optimized for very recently). I also picked a different configuration format and specification, what I believe is easier to write. Automatic TLS is also enabled by default out of the box, you don't need to even enable it manually, like it was in the original server I was building. Yesterday, I released the first…

    Oct 2025 · ferron.sh · its alternatives →

18. 18SS
    SockJS server written in Rust language▲7

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    QoreDB▲95

    The fast, open-source database client built with Rust

    Mar 2026 · qoredb.com · its alternatives →

20. 20GR
    Goatee – Redis, WebSocket notifications in Go▲40

    Hey guys and gals! I'm learning Go at the moment and LOVING it. I was hoping to get constructive feedback on a project I'm working on - goatee - which is a notification server that utilizes Redis pub/sub and WebSockets. It's fairly bare-bones at the moment but I'm hoping to add in a lot more features as time goes on such as queueing and WebSocket channel subscriptions (via Go Socketio possibly).

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

21. 21LD
    Lux – Drop-in Redis replacement in Rust. 5.6x faster, ~1MB Docker image▲59

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

22. 22WA
    We are three devs from Kenya and built a Docker alternative in Rust▲12

    2025 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

23. 23SR
    Shadowsocks-rust – A fast SOCKSv5 proxy in Rust▲68

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24AF
    Apache Fory Rust – 10-20x faster serialization than JSON/Protobuf▲67

    Serialization framework with some interesting numbers: 10-20x faster on nested objects than json/protobuf. Technical approach: compile-time codegen (no reflection), compact binary protocol with meta-packing, little-endian layout optimized for modern CPUs. Unique features that other fast serializers don't have: - Cross-language without IDL files (Rust ↔ Python/Java/Go) - Trait object serialization (Box) - Automatic circular reference handling - Schema evolution without coordination Happy to discuss design trade-offs. Benchmarks:…

    Oct 2025 · fory.apache.org · its alternatives →

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