Celery vs Heroku Redis

Overview

Celery

Stacks1.7K

Followers1.6K

Votes280

GitHub Stars27.5K

Forks4.9K

Heroku Redis

Stacks105

Followers163

Votes5

Celery vs Heroku Redis: What are the differences?

What is Celery? Distributed task queue. Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.

What is Heroku Redis? Reliable and powerful Redis as a service. Heroku Redis is an in-memory key-value data store, run by Heroku, that is provisioned and managed as an add-on. Heroku Redis is accessible from any language with a Redis driver, including all languages and frameworks supported by Heroku.

Celery belongs to "Message Queue" category of the tech stack, while Heroku Redis can be primarily classified under "Redis Hosting".

Celery is an open source tool with 12.9K GitHub stars and 3.33K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Celery's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Celery has a broader approval, being mentioned in 272 company stacks & 77 developers stacks; compared to Heroku Redis, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 15 developer stacks.

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Advice on Celery, Heroku Redis

Shantha

Sep 30, 2020

Needs adviceon

RabbitMQ

Celery

MongoDB

I am just a beginner at these two technologies.

Problem statement: I am getting lakh of users from the sequel server for whom I need to create caches in MongoDB by making different REST API requests.

Here these users can be treated as messages. Each REST API request is a task.

I am confused about whether I should go for RabbitMQ alone or Celery.

If I have to go with RabbitMQ, I prefer to use python with Pika module. But the challenge with Pika is, it is not thread-safe. So I am not finding a way to execute a lakh of API requests in parallel using multiple threads using Pika.

If I have to go with Celery, I don't know how I can achieve better scalability in executing these API requests in parallel.

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Detailed Comparison

Celery	Heroku Redis
Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.	Heroku Redis is an in-memory key-value data store, run by Heroku, that is provisioned and managed as an add-on. Heroku Redis is accessible from any language with a Redis driver, including all languages and frameworks supported by Heroku.
-	Easily Optimize;Vertically Scalable
Statistics
GitHub Stars 27.5K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 4.9K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 1.7K	Stacks 105
Followers 1.6K	Followers 163
Votes 280	Votes 5
Pros & Cons
Pros 99 Task queue 63 Python integration 40 Django integration 30 Scheduled Task 19 Publish/subsribe Cons 4 Sometimes loses tasks 1 Depends on broker	Pros 5 More reliable than the other Redis add-ons Cons 1 More expensive than the other options
Integrations
No integrations available	Heroku Redis

What are some alternatives to Celery, Heroku Redis?

Kafka

Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.

Amazon SQS

Transmit any volume of data, at any level of throughput, without losing messages or requiring other services to be always available. With SQS, you can offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available messaging cluster, while paying a low price for only what you use.

NSQ

NSQ is a realtime distributed messaging platform designed to operate at scale, handling billions of messages per day. It promotes distributed and decentralized topologies without single points of failure, enabling fault tolerance and high availability coupled with a reliable message delivery guarantee. See features & guarantees.

ActiveMQ

Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols, comes with easy to use Enterprise Integration Patterns and many advanced features while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4. Apache ActiveMQ is released under the Apache 2.0 License.

ZeroMQ

The 0MQ lightweight messaging kernel is a library which extends the standard socket interfaces with features traditionally provided by specialised messaging middleware products. 0MQ sockets provide an abstraction of asynchronous message queues, multiple messaging patterns, message filtering (subscriptions), seamless access to multiple transport protocols and more.

Apache NiFi

An easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data. It supports powerful and scalable directed graphs of data routing, transformation, and system mediation logic.

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.

Memphis

Highly scalable and effortless data streaming platform. Made to enable developers and data teams to collaborate and build real-time and streaming apps fast.

IronMQ

An easy-to-use highly available message queuing service. Built for distributed cloud applications with critical messaging needs. Provides on-demand message queuing with advanced features and cloud-optimized performance.