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Bull

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Followers9

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Kue

Stacks28

Followers30

+ 1

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Bull vs Kue: What are the differences?

Developers describe Bull as "Premium Queue package for handling jobs and messages in NodeJS". The fastest, most reliable, Redis-based queue for Node Carefully written for rock solid stability and atomicity.

. On the other hand, Kue is detailed as "Kue is a priority job queue backed by redis, built for node.js". 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 and Kue can be categorized as "Background Processing" tools.

Bull and Kue are both open source tools. Kue with 8.74K GitHub stars and 880 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Bull with 5.78K GitHub stars and 566 GitHub forks.

What is Bull?

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

What is 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.

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What tools integrate with Bull?

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What are some alternatives to Bull and Kue?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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