delayed VS RocketJob

Compare delayed vs RocketJob and see what are their differences.

delayed

a multi-threaded, SQL-driven ActiveJob backend used at Betterment to process millions of background jobs per day (by Betterment)
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delayed RocketJob
3 1
148 289
1.4% 0.0%
4.9 6.0
3 days ago 6 months ago
Ruby Ruby
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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delayed

Posts with mentions or reviews of delayed. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-06.
  • Introducing GoodJob Bulk and Batch
    2 projects | /r/rails | 6 Feb 2023
    To be fair, I think GoodJob is the third youngest Active Job backend (released in 2020). The younger ones are Skiplock and betterment/delayed.
  • Delayed Job vs. Sidekiq: Which Is Better?
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Feb 2022
    One big difference if you're changing forks is to take note of "at least once delivery": https://github.com/betterment/delayed#at-least-once-delivery

    If you're not aware of that, simply switching repos may cause some surprises.

RocketJob

Posts with mentions or reviews of RocketJob. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing delayed and RocketJob you can also consider the following projects:

sidekiq-failures - Keep track of Sidekiq failed jobs

Sidekiq - Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby

good_job - Multithreaded, Postgres-based, Active Job backend for Ruby on Rails.

Que - A Ruby job queue that uses PostgreSQL's advisory locks for speed and reliability.

sidekiq-statistic - See statistic about your workers

Resque - Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later.

Delayed::Job - Database based asynchronous priority queue system -- Extracted from Shopify

inst-jobs - Instructure-maintained fork of delayed_job

Karafka - Ruby and Rails efficient multithreaded Kafka processing framework

Shoryuken - A super efficient Amazon SQS thread based message processor for Ruby

Sucker Punch - Sucker Punch is a Ruby asynchronous processing library using concurrent-ruby, heavily influenced by Sidekiq and girl_friday.