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  5. Beanstalkd vs Resque

Beanstalkd vs Resque

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Overview

Resque
Resque
Stacks118
Followers126
Votes9
GitHub Stars9.5K
Forks1.7K
Beanstalkd
Beanstalkd
Stacks111
Followers161
Votes74

Beanstalkd vs Resque: 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 Resque? A Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later. 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.

Beanstalkd and Resque can be categorized as "Background Processing" tools.

"Fast" is the top reason why over 20 developers like Beanstalkd, while over 3 developers mention "Free" as the leading cause for choosing Resque.

Beanstalkd and Resque are both open source tools. It seems that Resque with 8.54K GitHub stars and 1.57K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Beanstalkd with 5.12K GitHub stars and 748 GitHub forks.

MAK IT, Stitched, and Youboox are some of the popular companies that use Resque, whereas Beanstalkd is used by Rollbar, Douban, and Achieved. Resque has a broader approval, being mentioned in 34 company stacks & 8 developers stacks; compared to Beanstalkd, which is listed in 27 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Resque
Resque
Beanstalkd
Beanstalkd

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.

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.

Statistics
GitHub Stars
9.5K
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
1.7K
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
118
Stacks
111
Followers
126
Followers
161
Votes
9
Votes
74
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 5
    Free
  • 3
    Scalable
  • 1
    Easy to use on heroku
Pros
  • 23
    Fast
  • 12
    Does one thing well
  • 12
    Free
  • 9
    Scalability
  • 8
    Simplicity

What are some alternatives to Resque, Beanstalkd?

Sidekiq

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.

Hangfire

Hangfire

It is an open-source framework that helps you to create, process and manage your background jobs, i.e. operations you don't want to put in your request processing pipeline. It supports all kind of background tasks – short-running and long-running, CPU intensive and I/O intensive, one shot and recurrent.

delayed_job

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.

Faktory

Faktory

Redis -> Sidekiq == Faktory -> Faktory. Faktory is a server daemon which provides a simple API to produce and consume background jobs. Jobs are a small JSON hash with a few mandatory keys.

Kue

Kue

Kue is a feature rich priority job queue for node.js backed by redis. A key feature of Kue is its clean user-interface for viewing and managing queued, active, failed, and completed jobs.

Bull

Bull

The fastest, most reliable, Redis-based queue for Node. Carefully written for rock solid stability and atomicity.

Cron

Cron

Background-only application which launches and runs other applications, or opens documents, at specified dates and times.

PHP-FPM

PHP-FPM

It is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. It includes Adaptive process spawning, Advanced process management with graceful stop/start, Emergency restart in case of accidental opcode cache destruction etc.

Que

Que

Que is a high-performance alternative to DelayedJob or QueueClassic that improves the reliability of your application by protecting your jobs with the same ACID guarantees as the rest of your data.

Goose

Goose

It is a simple, reliable & scalable background processing library for Clojure. It has a transparent design & cloud-native architecture.

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