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Fireworq vs Sidekiq: What are the differences?
What is Fireworq? A lightweight, high-performance, language-independent job queue system. Fireworq is a lightweight, high-performance job queue system available from any programming language which can talk HTTP. It works with a single binary without external dependencies.
What is Sidekiq? Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby. 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.
Fireworq and Sidekiq belong to "Background Processing" category of the tech stack.
Fireworq and Sidekiq are both open source tools. Sidekiq with 9.68K GitHub stars and 1.67K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Fireworq with 1.77K GitHub stars and 77 GitHub forks.
Pros of Fireworq
Pros of Sidekiq
- Simple124
- Efficient background processing99
- Scalability60
- Better then resque37
- Great documentation26
- Admin tool15
- Great community14
- Integrates with redis automatically, with zero config8
- Stupidly simple to integrate and run on Rails/Heroku7
- Great support7
- Ruby3
- Freeium3
- Pro version2
- Dashboard w/live polling1
- Great ecosystem of addons1
- Fast1