Gearman vs NServiceBus: What are the differences?

Developers describe Gearman as "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. On the other hand, NServiceBus is detailed as "*Enterprise-grade scalability and reliability for your workflows and integrations *". Performance, scalability, pub/sub, reliable integration, workflow orchestration, and everything else you could possibly want in a service bus.

Gearman and NServiceBus can be primarily classified as "Message Queue" tools.

According to the StackShare community, Gearman has a broader approval, being mentioned in 27 company stacks & 33 developers stacks; compared to NServiceBus, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.