Hangfire VS Polly

Compare Hangfire vs Polly and see what are their differences.

Hangfire

An easy way to perform background job processing in .NET and .NET Core applications. No Windows Service or separate process required (by HangfireIO)

Polly

Polly is a .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library that allows developers to express policies such as Retry, Circuit Breaker, Timeout, Bulkhead Isolation, and Fallback in a fluent and thread-safe manner. From version 6.0.1, Polly targets .NET Standard 1.1 and 2.0+. (by App-vNext)
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Hangfire Polly
61 52
8,938 12,900
1.4% 1.4%
9.4 9.8
7 days ago 1 day ago
C# C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Hangfire

Posts with mentions or reviews of Hangfire. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-29.

Polly

Posts with mentions or reviews of Polly. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Hangfire and Polly you can also consider the following projects:

QuartzNet - Quartz Enterprise Scheduler .NET

RabbitMQ.NET - RabbitMQ .NET client for .NET Standard 2.0+ and .NET 4.6.2+

MassTransit - Distributed Application Framework for .NET

Coravel - Near-zero config .NET library that makes advanced application features like Task Scheduling, Caching, Queuing, Event Broadcasting, and more a breeze!

Kafka Client

MediatR - Simple, unambitious mediator implementation in .NET

FluentScheduler - Automated job scheduler with fluent interface for the .NET platform.

NServiceBus - Build, version, and monitor better microservices with the most powerful service platform for .NET

CAP - Distributed transaction solution in micro-service base on eventually consistency, also an eventbus with Outbox pattern

NetMQ - A 100% native C# implementation of ZeroMQ for .NET

FluentValidation - A popular .NET validation library for building strongly-typed validation rules.

Redis - Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.