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BullMQ

A library that implements a fast and robust queue system
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What is BullMQ?

It is a Node.js library that implements a fast and robust queue system built on top of Redis. It is carefully written for rock solid stability and atomicity.
BullMQ is a tool in the Message Queue category of a tech stack.
BullMQ is an open source tool with 6.3K GitHub stars and 412 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to BullMQ's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses BullMQ?

Companies
20 companies reportedly use BullMQ in their tech stacks, including Development, Vendit, and Folhomee.

Developers
17 developers on StackShare have stated that they use BullMQ.

BullMQ Integrations

BullMQ's Features

  • Minimal CPU usage due to a polling-free design
  • Distributed job execution based on Redis
  • LIFO and FIFO jobs
  • Priorities
  • Delayed jobs
  • Scheduled and repeatable jobs according to cron specifications
  • Retries of failed jobs
  • Concurrency setting per worker
  • Threaded (sandboxed) processing functions
  • Automatic recovery from process crashes

BullMQ Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to BullMQ?
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.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
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BullMQ's Followers
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