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Celery vs Kue: What are the differences?
Developers describe Celery as "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. 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.
Celery can be classified as a tool in the "Message Queue" category, while Kue is grouped under "Background Processing".
Celery and Kue are both open source tools. It seems that Celery with 12.7K GitHub stars and 3.3K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Kue with 8.74K GitHub stars and 880 GitHub forks.
Sentry, Ansible, and OpenLabel are some of the popular companies that use Celery, whereas Kue is used by Gigster, Fraeber Labs Pvt Ltd, and Greenkeeper. Celery has a broader approval, being mentioned in 271 company stacks & 77 developers stacks; compared to Kue, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Pros of Celery
- Task queue99
- Python integration63
- Django integration40
- Scheduled Task30
- Publish/subsribe19
- Various backend broker8
- Easy to use6
- Great community5
- Workflow5
- Free4
- Dynamic1
Pros of Kue
- Simple2
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Cons of Celery
- Sometimes loses tasks4
- Depends on broker1