Gearman
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CommentsWhat is Gearman?
Gearman allows you to do work in parallel, to load balance processing, and to call functions between languages. It can be used in a variety of applications, from high-availability web sites to the transport of database replication events.
Gearman is a tool in the Background Jobs category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Open Source It’s free! (in both meanings of the word) Gearman has an active open source community that is easy to get involved with if you need help or want to contribute. Worried about licensing? Gearman is BSDMulti-language - There are interfaces for a number of languages, and this list is growing. You also have the option to write heterogeneous applications with clients submitting work in one language and workers performing that work in anotherFlexible - You are not tied to any specific design pattern. You can quickly put together distributed applications using any model you choose, one of those options being Map/ReduceFast - Gearman has a simple protocol and interface with an optimized, and threaded, server written in C/C++ to minimize your application overheadEmbeddable - Since Gearman is fast and lightweight, it is great for applications of all sizes. It is also easy to introduce into existing applications with minimal overheadNo single point of failure - Gearman can not only help scale systems, but can do it in a fault tolerant wayNo limits on message size - Gearman supports single messages up to 4gig in size. Need to do something bigger? No problem Gearman can chunk messagesWorried about scaling? - Don’t worry about it with Gearman. Craig’s List, Tumblr, Yelp, Etsy,… discover what others have known for years.
Gearman Pros & Cons
Pros of Gearman
- ✓Ease of use and very simple APIs
- ✓Free
- ✓Polyglot
- ✓No single point of failure
- ✓High-throughput
- ✓Scalable
- ✓Foreground & background processing
- ✓Very fast
- ✓Different Programming Languages Channel
- ✓Many supported programming languages
Cons of Gearman
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Gearman Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Gearman?
Kafka
Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.
Amazon SQS
Transmit any volume of data, at any level of throughput, without losing messages or requiring other services to be always available. With SQS, you can offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available messaging cluster, while paying a low price for only what you use.
Celery
Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.