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Beanstalkd vs delayed_job: What are the differences?

What is Beanstalkd? A simple, fast work queue. 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.

What is delayed_job? Database backed asynchronous priority queue -- Extracted from Shopify. Delayed_job (or DJ) encapsulates the common pattern of asynchronously executing longer tasks in the background. It is a direct extraction from Shopify where the job table is responsible for a multitude of core tasks.

Beanstalkd and delayed_job can be primarily classified as "Background Processing" tools.

"Fast" is the primary reason why developers consider Beanstalkd over the competitors, whereas "Easy to get started" was stated as the key factor in picking delayed_job.

Beanstalkd and delayedjob are both open source tools. It seems that Beanstalkd with 5.12K GitHub stars and 748 forks on GitHub has more adoption than delayedjob with 4.46K GitHub stars and 915 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Beanstalkd has a broader approval, being mentioned in 27 company stacks & 8 developers stacks; compared to delayed_job, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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Pros of Beanstalkd
Pros of delayed_job
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    Fast
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    Free
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    Does one thing well
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    Scalability
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    Simplicity
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    External admin UI developer friendly
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    Job delay
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    Job prioritization
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    External admin UI
  • 3
    Easy to get started
  • 2
    Reliable
  • 1
    Doesn't require Redis

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What is 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.

What is delayed_job?

Delayed_job (or DJ) encapsulates the common pattern of asynchronously executing longer tasks in the background. It is a direct extraction from Shopify where the job table is responsible for a multitude of core tasks.

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