NATS VS Sidekiq

Compare NATS vs Sidekiq and see what are their differences.

Sidekiq

Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby (by sidekiq)
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NATS Sidekiq
104 88
14,561 12,913
2.4% 0.6%
9.8 8.9
6 days ago 1 day ago
Go Ruby
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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NATS

Posts with mentions or reviews of NATS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-20.

Sidekiq

Posts with mentions or reviews of Sidekiq. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-04.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing NATS and Sidekiq you can also consider the following projects:

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

celery - Distributed Task Queue (development branch)

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

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

ZeroMQ - ZeroMQ core engine in C++, implements ZMTP/3.1

Apache ActiveMQ - Mirror of Apache ActiveMQ

nsq - A realtime distributed messaging platform

Sneakers - A fast background processing framework for Ruby and RabbitMQ

Apache Kafka - Mirror of Apache Kafka

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.

mosquitto - Eclipse Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker