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 468 GitHub stars and 68 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.
Kafka
Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.
Amazon SQS
Transmit any volume of data, at any level of throughput, without losing messages or requiring other services to be always available. With SQS, you can offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available messaging cluster, while paying a low price for only what you use.
