kue VS pg-boss

Compare kue vs pg-boss and see what are their differences.

kue

Kue is a priority job queue backed by redis, built for node.js. (by Automattic)

pg-boss

Queueing jobs in Node.js using PostgreSQL like a boss (by timgit)
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kue pg-boss
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9,433 1,625
0.1% -
0.0 5.5
3 months ago 24 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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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.

pg-boss

Posts with mentions or reviews of pg-boss. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-24.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kue and pg-boss you can also consider the following projects:

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

worker - High performance Node.js/PostgreSQL job queue (also suitable for getting jobs generated by PostgreSQL triggers/functions out into a different work queue)

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

celery - Distributed Task Queue (development branch)

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

django-postgres-queue - A task queue for django

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

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.

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

Chronicle Queue - Micro second messaging that stores everything to disk