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Gearman vs IBM MQ: What are the differences?

Gearman: A generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes. 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; IBM MQ: Enterprise-grade messaging middleware. It is a messaging middleware that simplifies and accelerates the integration of diverse applications and business data across multiple platforms. It offers proven, enterprise-grade messaging capabilities that skillfully and safely move information.

Gearman and IBM MQ belong to "Message Queue" category of the tech stack.

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Pros of Gearman
Pros of IBM MQ
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    Ease of use and very simple APIs
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    Free
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    Polyglot
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    No single point of failure
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    Scalable
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    High-throughput
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    Foreground & background processing
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    Very fast
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    Different Programming Languages Channel
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    Many supported programming languages
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    Reliable for banking transactions
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    Useful for big enteprises
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    Secure
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    Broader connectivity - more protocols, APIs, Files etc
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    Many deployment options (containers, cloud, VM etc)
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    High Availability

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Cons of Gearman
Cons of IBM MQ
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      Cost

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    What 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.

    What is IBM MQ?

    It is a messaging middleware that simplifies and accelerates the integration of diverse applications and business data across multiple platforms. It offers proven, enterprise-grade messaging capabilities that skillfully and safely move information.

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    What are some alternatives to Gearman and IBM MQ?
    RabbitMQ
    RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.
    Kafka
    Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.
    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.
    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.
    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.
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