Beanstalkd vs delayed_job vs Sidekiq

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Beanstalkd

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delayed_job

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Sidekiq

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Pros of Beanstalkd
Pros of delayed_job
Pros of Sidekiq
  • 23
    Fast
  • 12
    Free
  • 12
    Does one thing well
  • 9
    Scalability
  • 8
    Simplicity
  • 3
    External admin UI developer friendly
  • 3
    Job delay
  • 2
    Job prioritization
  • 2
    External admin UI
  • 3
    Easy to get started
  • 2
    Reliable
  • 1
    Doesn't require Redis
  • 124
    Simple
  • 99
    Efficient background processing
  • 60
    Scalability
  • 37
    Better then resque
  • 26
    Great documentation
  • 15
    Admin tool
  • 14
    Great community
  • 8
    Integrates with redis automatically, with zero config
  • 7
    Stupidly simple to integrate and run on Rails/Heroku
  • 7
    Great support
  • 3
    Ruby
  • 3
    Freeium
  • 2
    Pro version
  • 1
    Dashboard w/live polling
  • 1
    Great ecosystem of addons
  • 1
    Fast

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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.

What is 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.

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      What are some alternatives to Beanstalkd, delayed_job, and Sidekiq?
      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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