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Celery

Open Source Alternatives to Celery

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What is Celery?

Celery is a distributed task queue system for Python that handles asynchronous job processing, scheduling, and message passing, often used with web frameworks like Django.. There are currently 6 open-source alternatives to Celery, with a combined total of 32.3k GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is Go.

Showing 6 open-source alternatives

rq
rqrq/rq

A simple Python library for queueing jobs and processing them in the background with workers, backed by Redis/Valkey.

10.7k1.5kPython
1 day ago
Hangfire
HangfireHangfireIO/Hangfire

A .NET library for background job processing with fire-and-forget, delayed, and recurring tasks, no Windows Service required.

10.2k1.8kC#
2 days ago
hatchet
hatchethatchet-dev/hatchet

A durable background task queue and workflow orchestration platform built on Postgres with observability and flow control.

8.2k523Go
1 day ago
JobRunr
JobRunrjobrunr/jobrunr

A Java library for easy, reliable background job processing with persistent storage, using Java 8 lambdas.

3.1k327Java
3 days ago
Ratus
Ratushyperonym/ratus

A RESTful asynchronous task queue server that provides a consistent HTTP API for various storage backends.

1278Go
11 months ago
idoit
idoitnodeca/idoit

A Redis-backed task queue engine for Node.js with advanced task control, worker pools, and eventual consistency.

7810JavaScript
3 years ago
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