Hexagonal Architecture vs. Clean Architecture

[Dave Schinkel]

I'm building out a new REST API.  It's purpose is to serve data to various clients.  I'm trying to keep it generic so that it can be reused regardless of application as much as possible and trying to abstract out the Entity logic and Interactor logic out somehow and keep that decoupled from the basic Data API I'm building here.

With that I've been looking at Uncle Bob's Episode 7 video as well as brushing up on Hexagonal architecture (ports and adapters).

Question:  Is a Hexagonal Architecture related in any way to Clean Architecture?  In other words, in a Hexogonal Architecture, we have ports and adapters and then inside the hexagon, the application architecture.  In Clean Architecture, we have Boundary Objects, Interactor Objects, Entity Objects (and probably lower level Repository Objects that talk to Data Layer CRUD objects).  So do they cross paths?  Such as I guess Clean Architecture in a Hexagonal model would be the application logic?  Or maybe not?  Do these two styles even cross paths or relate to each other at all?  Do ports and adapters equate to Clean ARchitecture ideas such as boundary objects to any degree?

[Israel Fonseca]

From my understanding they are conceptually equal, just with different names.

Uncle Bob even compare it with other architectures here:

https://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/08/13/the-clean-architecture.html

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[Guido Dechamps]

yes they are the same.
Important is wat lies central (the domain, not the db :)) and that inner layers do not depend on outer layers.

[Dave Schinkel]

Thanks I totally forgot about that post and diagram.  I need to keep that surfaced in my list of favorites more.

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[Dave Schinkel]

Thanks Guido, good summary.