List of ActiveJob queue backends

Tuesday, Aug 25, 2020 @ 22:12 MDT

During some recent research, I made a list of all the Rails/ActiveJob compatible queue backends I could find.

I started with the list from Rails, which is just the queues with adapters built-in to Rails, then added anything else I could find that wasn’t obviously dead (mostly determined by lack of commits for an extended time).

Additions and corrections are welcomed.

	Async	Queues	Delayed	Priorities	Timeout	Retries	Job storage	Exec mode
Backburner	Yes	Yes	Yes	Queue	Job	Global	beanstalkd	inprocess, fork, thread
Delayed Job	Yes	Yes	Yes	Job	Global	Global	activerecord, mongoid	fork
Faktory Worker	Yes	Yes	Yes	Queue	No	Job	faktory (embedded redis)	thread
Fliess	Yes	Yes	Yes	Job	Job	Job	activerecord	thread
Gearman Ruby	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?	gearman	single worker
GoodJob	Yes	Yes	Yes	Job	Job	Job	postgres	inprocess, thread
Google Cloud Pub/Sub	Yes	Yes	?	?	?	?	gcp	thread
KubeQueue	Yes	No	Yes	No	Job	Job	kubernetes (etcd)	k8s job
Que	Yes	Yes	Yes	Job	No	Job	postgres	thread
queue_classic	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	postgres	fork, thread
Resque	Yes	Yes	Yes (Gem)	Queue	Global	Yes	redis	fork
Shoryuken	Yes	Yes	Yes	Queue	No	Job	aws sqs	thread
Sidekiq	Yes	Yes	Yes	Queue	No	Job	redis	thread
Sneakers	Yes	Yes	No	Queue	Queue	No	rabbitmq	thread
Advanced Sneakers	Yes	Yes	Yes	Queue	Queue	No	rabbitmq	thread
Sqewer	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Global	aws sqs	thread
Sucker Punch	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	memory	inprocess
Workhorse	Yes	Yes	Yes	Job	No	Global	activerecord	thread
Active Job Async	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	memory	inprocess
Active Job Inline	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	memory	inline

There are also gems for running background jobs that are not ActiveJob compatible. Those are not listed above.

tags: rails, activejob