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Kue vs Redis: What are the differences?

Kue: Kue is a priority job queue backed by redis, built for node.js. Kue is a feature rich priority job queue for node.js backed by redis. A key feature of Kue is its clean user-interface for viewing and managing queued, active, failed, and completed jobs; Redis: 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.

Kue belongs to "Background Processing" category of the tech stack, while Redis can be primarily classified under "In-Memory Databases".

Kue and Redis are both open source tools. Redis with 37.1K GitHub stars and 14.3K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Kue with 8.74K GitHub stars and 880 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Redis has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3239 company stacks & 1735 developers stacks; compared to Kue, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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Pros of Kue
Pros of Redis
  • 2
    Simple
  • 887
    Performance
  • 542
    Super fast
  • 514
    Ease of use
  • 444
    In-memory cache
  • 324
    Advanced key-value cache
  • 194
    Open source
  • 182
    Easy to deploy
  • 165
    Stable
  • 156
    Free
  • 121
    Fast
  • 42
    High-Performance
  • 40
    High Availability
  • 35
    Data Structures
  • 32
    Very Scalable
  • 24
    Replication
  • 23
    Pub/Sub
  • 22
    Great community
  • 19
    "NoSQL" key-value data store
  • 16
    Hashes
  • 13
    Sets
  • 11
    Sorted Sets
  • 10
    Lists
  • 10
    NoSQL
  • 9
    Async replication
  • 9
    BSD licensed
  • 8
    Integrates super easy with Sidekiq for Rails background
  • 8
    Bitmaps
  • 7
    Open Source
  • 7
    Keys with a limited time-to-live
  • 6
    Lua scripting
  • 6
    Strings
  • 5
    Awesomeness for Free
  • 5
    Hyperloglogs
  • 4
    Runs server side LUA
  • 4
    Transactions
  • 4
    Networked
  • 4
    Outstanding performance
  • 4
    Feature Rich
  • 4
    Written in ANSI C
  • 4
    LRU eviction of keys
  • 3
    Data structure server
  • 3
    Performance & ease of use
  • 2
    Temporarily kept on disk
  • 2
    Dont save data if no subscribers are found
  • 2
    Automatic failover
  • 2
    Easy to use
  • 2
    Scalable
  • 2
    Channels concept
  • 2
    Object [key/value] size each 500 MB
  • 2
    Existing Laravel Integration
  • 2
    Simple

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Cons of Kue
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    • 15
      Cannot query objects directly
    • 3
      No secondary indexes for non-numeric data types
    • 1
      No WAL

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    What is Kue?

    Kue is a feature rich priority job queue for node.js backed by redis. A key feature of Kue is its clean user-interface for viewing and managing queued, active, failed, and completed jobs.

    What is Redis?

    Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.

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