job queue implementation for python

Question

Do you know/use any distributed job queue for python? Can you share links or tools

Solution 1

In addition to multiprocessing there's also the Celery project, if you're using Django.

Solution 2

Pyres is a resque clone built in python. Resque is used by Github as their message queue. Both use Redis as the queue backend and provide a web-based monitoring application.

http://binarydud.github.com/pyres/intro.html

Solution 3

There's also "bucker" by Sylvain Hellegouarch which you can find here:

• http://trac.defuze.org/wiki/bucker

It describes itself like this:

• bucker is a queue system that supports multiple storage for the queue (memcached, Amazon SQS for now) and is driven by XML messages sent over a TCP connections between a client and the queue server.

Solution 4

If you think that Celery is too heavy for your needs then you might want to look at the simple distributed task queue:

• https://github.com/rojkov/taskqueue
• http://simpletaskqueue.readthedocs.org/

Solution 5

redqueue? It's implemented in python+tornado framework, speaks memcached protocol and is optionally persistent into log files. Currently it is also able to behave like beanstalkd, the reserve/delete way in memcache protocol as well.

REDQUEUE

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Comments

[Admin]

Thanks for the link? Is it strictly used with django? can we use it for standard python projects?

[Vinay Sajip]

I don't see why not, with suitable adaptation (not sure how much work that'll be - depends on your exact requirement).

[Ed_WFerreira]

Celery has an underlying library, called Carrot, that you can use without Django.

[Admin]

At present, I have been using celery. I will look at the redqueue. Thanks for answer

[asksol]

Both Celery and Carrot works without Django. Or that is, you can use it from outside of a Django project. Recently someone even implemented paste support: bitbucket.org/twillis/celery-paste

[Matthew Wilcoxson]

Celery is now designed to be used outside of Django (but still has Django support if you need it)