What is Bull?
The fastest, most reliable, Redis-based queue for Node.
Carefully written for rock solid stability and atomicity.
Bull is a tool in the Background Processing category of a tech stack.
Bull is an open source tool with 15.6K GitHub stars and 1.4K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Bull's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Bull?
Companies
25 companies reportedly use Bull in their tech stacks, including Pier, Care, and Amp X.
Developers
43 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Bull.
Pros of Bull
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Bull's Features
- Minimal CPU usage due to a polling-free design.
- Robust design based on Redis.
- Delayed jobs.
- Schedule and repeat jobs according to a cron specification.
- Rate limiter for jobs.
- Retries.
- Priority.
- Concurrency.
- Pause/resume—globally or locally.
- Multiple job types per queue.
- Threaded (sandboxed) processing functions.
- Automatic recovery from process crashes.
Bull Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Bull?
Buffalo
Buffalo is Go web framework. Yeah, I hate the word "framework" too! Buffalo is different though. Buffalo doesn't want to re-invent wheels like routing and templating. Buffalo is glue that wraps all of the best packages available and makes them all play nicely together.
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
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