Celery vs WCF

Overview

Celery

Stacks1.7K

Followers1.6K

Votes280

GitHub Stars27.5K

Forks4.9K

WCF

Stacks125

Followers107

Votes5

Celery vs WCF: 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 WCF? A runtime and a set of APIs for building connected, service-oriented applications. It is a framework for building service-oriented applications. Using this, you can send data as asynchronous messages from one service endpoint to another. A service endpoint can be part of a continuously available service hosted by IIS, or it can be a service hosted in an application.

Celery can be classified as a tool in the "Message Queue" category, while WCF is grouped under "Realtime Backend / API".

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.

Udemy, Sentry, and Postmates are some of the popular companies that use Celery, whereas WCF is used by Bluebeam Software, Heimdal Security, and KGS Buildings. Celery has a broader approval, being mentioned in 272 company stacks & 77 developers stacks; compared to WCF, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Celery	WCF
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.	It is a framework for building service-oriented applications. Using this, you can send data as asynchronous messages from one service endpoint to another. A service endpoint can be part of a continuously available service hosted by IIS, or it can be a service hosted in an application.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 27.5K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 4.9K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 1.7K	Stacks 125
Followers 1.6K	Followers 107
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 Classes

What are some alternatives to Celery, WCF?

Firebase

Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.

Socket.IO

It enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication. It works on every platform, browser or device, focusing equally on reliability and speed.

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.

PubNub

PubNub makes it easy for you to add real-time capabilities to your apps, without worrying about the infrastructure. Build apps that allow your users to engage in real-time across mobile, browser, desktop and server.

Pusher

Pusher is the category leader in delightful APIs for app developers building communication and collaboration features.

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.

SignalR

SignalR allows bi-directional communication between server and client. Servers can now push content to connected clients instantly as it becomes available. SignalR supports Web Sockets, and falls back to other compatible techniques for older browsers. SignalR includes APIs for connection management (for instance, connect and disconnect events), grouping connections, and authorization.

Ably

Ably offers WebSockets, stream resume, history, presence, and managed third-party integrations to make it simple to build, extend, and deliver digital realtime experiences at scale.