Michael isn't an expert on GearMan but essentially confirmed my response. On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Bill Ricker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:56 PM, David Larochelle <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I'm unable to attend but a question I would like is ask is Are AMQP and >> RAbbitMQ better than Gearman? > > > Best Answer on Stack Overflow for this Q is - > >> I would say that Gearman is better for queuing "jobs" and RabbitMQ is better >> for queuing "data". > > So, Ratchet wrenches and power screwdrivers, neither is better, use > the right one at each need ? > > Message Queueing such as AMQP (which RabbitMQ implements) and IBM > WS-MQ etc are networking/RPC type Pub/Sub and Store-and-Forward > middleware. ( Michael will introduce what Message Queueing middleware > is tonight.) > > "The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is an open standard > application layer protocol for message-oriented middleware. " > /wikipedia > > Gearman is a App Framework (with a few implementations and multiple > languages) for local work distribution in a server farm, that > internally hides a scheduler and a app layer protocol. > > One could build a Gearman with AMQP, but they've done their own > protocol, possibly for efficiency. Building AMQP with Gearman would be > VERY inefficient. > > I'll make a note to ask Michael to comment on this in Q&A ... > > -- > Bill Ricker > [email protected] > https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
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