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delayed_job vs Hangfire: What are the differences?

Developers describe delayed_job as "Database backed asynchronous priority queue -- Extracted from Shopify". 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. On the other hand, Hangfire is detailed as "Perform background processing in .NET and .NET Core applications". 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.

delayed_job and Hangfire can be categorized as "Background Processing" tools.

delayedjob and Hangfire are both open source tools. Hangfire with 4.93K GitHub stars and 1.12K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than delayedjob with 4.47K GitHub stars and 915 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, delayed_job has a broader approval, being mentioned in 13 company stacks & 23 developers stacks; compared to Hangfire, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

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Pros of delayed_job
Pros of Hangfire
  • 3
    Easy to get started
  • 2
    Reliable
  • 1
    Doesn't require Redis
  • 7
    Integrated UI dashboard
  • 5
    Simple
  • 3
    Robust
  • 2
    In Memory
  • 0
    Simole

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What is 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.

What is 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.

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What tools integrate with delayed_job?
What tools integrate with Hangfire?
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    What are some alternatives to delayed_job and Hangfire?
    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.
    RabbitMQ
    RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.
    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.
    JavaScript
    JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
    Git
    Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
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