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Gearman vs Redis: What are the differences?
Developers describe Gearman as "A generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes". 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. On the other hand, Redis is detailed as "An in-memory database that persists on disk". Redis is an open source, BSD licensed, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.
Gearman and Redis are primarily classified as "Message Queue" and "In-Memory Databases" tools respectively.
"Free" is the primary reason why developers consider Gearman over the competitors, whereas "Performance" was stated as the key factor in picking Redis.
Redis is an open source tool with 37.4K GitHub stars and 14.4K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Redis's open source repository on GitHub.
Airbnb, Uber Technologies, and Instagram are some of the popular companies that use Redis, whereas Gearman is used by Instagram, Hootsuite, and Grooveshark. Redis has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3261 company stacks & 1781 developers stacks; compared to Gearman, which is listed in 19 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Pros of Gearman
- Ease of use and very simple APIs11
- Free11
- Polyglot6
- No single point of failure5
- Scalable3
- High-throughput3
- Foreground & background processing2
- Very fast2
- Different Programming Languages Channel1
- Many supported programming languages1
Pros of Redis
- Performance880
- Super fast537
- Ease of use510
- In-memory cache441
- Advanced key-value cache321
- Open source190
- Easy to deploy179
- Stable163
- Free152
- Fast120
- High-Performance40
- High Availability39
- Data Structures34
- Very Scalable32
- Replication23
- Pub/Sub20
- Great community20
- "NoSQL" key-value data store17
- Hashes14
- Sets12
- Sorted Sets10
- Lists9
- BSD licensed8
- NoSQL8
- Integrates super easy with Sidekiq for Rails background7
- Async replication7
- Bitmaps7
- Keys with a limited time-to-live6
- Open Source6
- Strings5
- Lua scripting5
- Hyperloglogs4
- Awesomeness for Free!4
- Transactions3
- Runs server side LUA3
- outstanding performance3
- Networked3
- LRU eviction of keys3
- Written in ANSI C3
- Feature Rich3
- Performance & ease of use2
- Data structure server2
- Simple1
- Channels concept1
- Scalable1
- Temporarily kept on disk1
- Dont save data if no subscribers are found1
- Automatic failover1
- Easy to use1
- Existing Laravel Integration1
- Object [key/value] size each 500 MB1
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Cons of Gearman
Cons of Redis
- Cannot query objects directly14
- No secondary indexes for non-numeric data types2
- No WAL1
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