Gearman vs XMPP: What are the differences?

Gearman: 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; XMPP: An open XML technology for real-time communication. It is a set of open technologies for instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, collaboration, lightweight middleware, content syndication, and generalized routing of XML data.

Gearman and XMPP are primarily classified as "Message Queue" and "Container" tools respectively.

According to the StackShare community, Gearman has a broader approval, being mentioned in 27 company stacks & 33 developers stacks; compared to XMPP, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.