Bull vs Kue vs Resque
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Background jobs can be any Ruby class or module that responds to perform. Your existing classes can easily be converted to background jobs or you can create new classes specifically to do work. Or, you can do both. | Kue is a feature rich priority job queue for node.js backed by redis. A key feature of Kue is its clean user-interface for viewing and managing queued, active, failed, and completed jobs. | The fastest, most reliable, Redis-based queue for Node. Carefully written for rock solid stability and atomicity. |
| - | - | 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. |
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GitHub Stars 9.5K | GitHub Stars 9.5K | GitHub Stars 16.2K |
GitHub Forks 1.7K | GitHub Forks 871 | GitHub Forks 1.4K |
Stacks 118 | Stacks 51 | Stacks 92 |
Followers 126 | Followers 88 | Followers 113 |
Votes 9 | Votes 2 | Votes 1 |
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What are some alternatives to Resque, Kue, Bull?
Sidekiq
Sidekiq uses threads to handle many jobs at the same time in the same process. It does not require Rails but will integrate tightly with Rails 3/4 to make background processing dead simple.
Beanstalkd
Beanstalks's interface is generic, but was originally designed for reducing the latency of page views in high-volume web applications by running time-consuming tasks asynchronously.
Hangfire
It is an open-source framework that helps you to create, process and manage your background jobs, i.e. operations you don't want to put in your request processing pipeline. It supports all kind of background tasks – short-running and long-running, CPU intensive and I/O intensive, one shot and recurrent.
delayed_job
Delayed_job (or DJ) encapsulates the common pattern of asynchronously executing longer tasks in the background. It is a direct extraction from Shopify where the job table is responsible for a multitude of core tasks.
Faktory
Redis -> Sidekiq == Faktory -> Faktory. Faktory is a server daemon which provides a simple API to produce and consume background jobs. Jobs are a small JSON hash with a few mandatory keys.
Bulk Writer GPT
Create unlimited articles in one go by uploading a CSV of keywords. The system handles queue management, real-time progress tracking, automatic retries for failed articles, and multi-format exports—making large-scale content creation fast, stable, and hands-free.
Cron
Background-only application which launches and runs other applications, or opens documents, at specified dates and times.
PHP-FPM
It is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. It includes Adaptive process spawning, Advanced process management with graceful stop/start, Emergency restart in case of accidental opcode cache destruction etc.
Que
Que is a high-performance alternative to DelayedJob or QueueClassic that improves the reliability of your application by protecting your jobs with the same ACID guarantees as the rest of your data.
Goose
It is a simple, reliable & scalable background processing library for Clojure. It has a transparent design & cloud-native architecture.
