kue VS Apache Kafka

Compare kue vs Apache Kafka and see what are their differences.

kue

Kue is a priority job queue backed by redis, built for node.js. (by Automattic)
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kue Apache Kafka
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9,433 27,275
0.1% 1.3%
0.0 9.9
2 months ago 7 days ago
JavaScript Java
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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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.

Apache Kafka

Posts with mentions or reviews of Apache Kafka. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-05.

What are some alternatives?

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

bull - Premium Queue package for handling distributed jobs and messages in NodeJS.

celery - Distributed Task Queue (development branch)

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

Apache ActiveMQ Artemis - Mirror of Apache ActiveMQ Artemis

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

redpanda - Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!

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

jetstream - JetStream Utilities

Aeron - Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport

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

NATS - High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.