Difference between CompletableFuture, Future and RxJava’s Observable

I would like to know the difference between
CompletableFuture,Future and Observable RxJava.

What I know is all are asynchronous but

Future.get() blocks the thread

CompletableFuture gives the callback methods

RxJava Observable — similar to CompletableFuture with other benefits(not sure)

For example: if client needs to make multiple service calls and when we use Futures (Java) Future.get() will be executed sequentially…would like to know how its better in RxJava..

And the documentation http://reactivex.io/intro.html says

It is difficult to use Futures to optimally compose conditional asynchronous execution flows (or impossible, since latencies of each request vary at runtime). This can be done, of course, but it quickly becomes complicated (and thus error-prone) or it prematurely blocks on Future.get(), which eliminates the benefit of asynchronous execution.

Really interested to know how RxJava solves this problem. I found it difficult to understand from the documentation.

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