sidekiq Alternatives

sidekiq is described as 'Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby. Sidekiq uses threads to handle many jobs at the same time in the same process. It does not require Rails but will integrate tightly with Rails to make background processing dead simple' and is an app. There are five alternatives to sidekiq for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted and Ruby apps. The best sidekiq alternative is Zenaton, which is free. Other great apps like sidekiq are Resque, Delayed::Job, Celery: Distributed Task Queue and Hangfire.

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  1. Zenaton icon

    Zenaton

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    Zenaton is a developer tool and hosted workflow engine for writing, running and monitoring all of your background processes whether it is a single task or a long running workflow. It allows developers to easily integrate third party services and APIs iby triggering tasks and...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Clever Cloud
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Heroku
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    • Zenaton is the most popular SaaS alternative to sidekiq.

    • Zenaton is the most popular free alternative to sidekiq.

    • Zenaton is Freemium and Proprietarysidekiq is Freemium and Open Source

  2. Resque

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • Redis
    • Ruby on Rails
    • RubyGems
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    • Resque is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to sidekiq.

    • Resque is the most popular Open Source alternative to sidekiq.

    • Resque is Free and Open Sourcesidekiq is Freemium and Open Source
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    Delayed::Job

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    Database based asynchronous priority queue system -- Extracted from Shopify - collectiveidea/delayed_job

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • Redis
    • Ruby on Rails
     
  5. Celery: Distributed Task Queue icon

    Celery: Distributed Task Queue

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    Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     

  6. Hangfire

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    An easy way to perform background processing in .NET and .NET Core applications. No Windows Service or separate process required. Backed by persistent storage. Open and free for commercial use.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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