What is Starling?
Starling is a powerful but simple messaging server that enables reliable distributed queuing with an absolutely minimal overhead. It speaks the MemCache protocol for maximum cross-platform compatibility. Any language that speaks MemCache can take advantage of Starling's queue facilities.
Starling is a tool in the Message Queue category of a tech stack.
Starling is an open source tool with 464 GitHub stars and 60 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Starling's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Starling?
Companies
Developers
7 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Starling.
Starling's Features
- Written by Blaine Cook at Twitter
- Starling is a Message Queue Server based on MemCached
- Written in Ruby
- Stores jobs in memory (message queue)
Starling Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Starling?
Authy
We make the best rated Two-Factor Authentication smartphone app for consumers, a Rest API for developers and a strong authentication platform for the enterprise.
Sparrow
Sparrow keeps messages in memory, but persists them to disk, using Sqlite, when the queue is shutdown.
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.