What is Solid Queue?
It is a DB-based queuing backend for Active Job, designed with simplicity and performance in mind. It can be used with SQL databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite.
Solid Queue is a tool in the Background Jobs category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Job enqueuing and processingSupports delayed jobsConcurrency controlsPausing queuesNumeric priorities per jobBulk enqueuing
Solid Queue Pros & Cons
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Solid Queue Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Solid Queue?
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.
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.
Resque
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.
