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  5. Beanstalkd vs Sidekiq

Beanstalkd vs Sidekiq

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Overview

Sidekiq
Sidekiq
Stacks1.2K
Followers632
Votes408
Beanstalkd
Beanstalkd
Stacks111
Followers161
Votes74

Beanstalkd vs Sidekiq: What are the differences?

Developers describe Beanstalkd as "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. On the other hand, Sidekiq is detailed as "Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby". 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.

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

"Fast" is the top reason why over 20 developers like Beanstalkd, while over 120 developers mention "Simple" as the leading cause for choosing Sidekiq.

Beanstalkd and Sidekiq are both open source tools. Sidekiq with 9.68K GitHub stars and 1.67K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Beanstalkd with 5.12K GitHub stars and 748 GitHub forks.

HotelTonight, New Relic, and Twilio SendGrid are some of the popular companies that use Sidekiq, whereas Beanstalkd is used by Rollbar, Douban, and Achieved. Sidekiq has a broader approval, being mentioned in 348 company stacks & 77 developers stacks; compared to Beanstalkd, which is listed in 27 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Sidekiq
Sidekiq
Beanstalkd
Beanstalkd

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.

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
Stacks
1.2K
Stacks
111
Followers
632
Followers
161
Votes
408
Votes
74
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 124
    Simple
  • 99
    Efficient background processing
  • 60
    Scalability
  • 37
    Better then resque
  • 26
    Great documentation
Pros
  • 23
    Fast
  • 12
    Does one thing well
  • 12
    Free
  • 9
    Scalability
  • 8
    Simplicity

What are some alternatives to Sidekiq, Beanstalkd?

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.

Resque

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.

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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