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IronMQ vs Sparrow: What are the differences?
IronMQ: Message Queue for any deployment. An easy-to-use highly available message queuing service. Built for distributed cloud applications with critical messaging needs. Provides on-demand message queuing with advanced features and cloud-optimized performance; Sparrow: A really fast lightweight queue written in Ruby that speaks memcache. Sparrow keeps messages in memory, but persists them to disk, using Sqlite, when the queue is shutdown.
IronMQ and Sparrow belong to "Message Queue" category of the tech stack.
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- Heroku Add-on8
- Push support3
- Delayed delivery upto 7 days3
- Super fast2
- Language agnostic2
- Good analytics/monitoring2
- Ease of configuration2
- GDPR Compliant2
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- Can't use rabbitmqadmin1
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What is IronMQ?
An easy-to-use highly available message queuing service. Built for distributed cloud applications with critical messaging needs. Provides on-demand message queuing with advanced features and cloud-optimized performance.
What is Sparrow?
Sparrow keeps messages in memory, but persists them to disk, using Sqlite, when the queue is shutdown.
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What are some alternatives to IronMQ and Sparrow?
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.
CloudAMQP
Fully managed, highly available RabbitMQ servers and clusters, on all major compute platforms.
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.