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lilspikey / django-background-task

A database-backed work queue for Django
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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How is this different to Celery? #4

Closed alp82 closed 12 years ago

alp82 commented 12 years ago

I am just curious if this has anything Celery can't do. Are there major differences?

lilspikey commented 12 years ago

Pretty certain that Celery can do everything this can do and more.

The only real reason to use it would be it's simple. When I started writing this Celery seemed overkill for what I needed. Most of the documentation/tutorials for Celery talked about using ampq or similar, which would have been too much to run on my shared web host. Ruby had delayed job and that seemed a better fit for what I wanted.

It seems though that Celery now is probably the best bet for most people and can be run with a database backend.

I think the only extra feature that background task has, is the ability to re-schedule tasks automatically when an identical task is submitted.