bull VS kue

Compare bull vs kue and see what are their differences.

bull

Premium Queue package for handling distributed jobs and messages in NodeJS. (by OptimalBits)

kue

Kue is a priority job queue backed by redis, built for node.js. (by Automattic)
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bull kue
50 -
15,018 9,435
0.9% 0.1%
7.1 0.0
6 days ago 2 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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bull

Posts with mentions or reviews of bull. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-15.

kue

Posts with mentions or reviews of kue. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning kue yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bull and kue you can also consider the following projects:

Bee-Queue - A simple, fast, robust job/task queue for Node.js, backed by Redis.

node-resque - Node.js Background jobs backed by redis.

RabbitMQ - Open source RabbitMQ: core server and tier 1 (built-in) plugins

agenda - Lightweight job scheduling for Node.js

bottleneck - Job scheduler and rate limiter, supports Clustering

celery - Distributed Task Queue (development branch)

better-queue - Better Queue for NodeJS

The gist - BullMQ - Message Queue and Batch processing for NodeJS and Python based on Redis

idoit - Redis-backed task queue engine with advanced task control and eventual consistency

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