antirez/disque

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Disque is an in-memory, distributed message broker and job queue written in C, designed to capture the 'Redis as a jobs queue' use case in a self-contained, fault-tolerant server. It provides synchronously replicated job delivery with producer-consumer semantics across multiple nodes.

Use cases

• run a distributed job queue for background task processing
• send messages between microservices with delivery guarantees
• replace Redis list-based job queues with a purpose-built broker
• queue delayed jobs like confirmation emails from a web app
• build fault-tolerant producer-consumer pipelines across nodes

When to choose

• you need an in-memory, Redis-like message broker with synchronous replication and fault tolerance
• you want a simple, self-contained job queue without heavyweight middleware like Kafka or RabbitMQ
• your workload fits in memory and you value performance and simplicity

When to avoid

• you need persistent on-disk message storage or long-term durability
• you require a production-hardened broker with active development and broad ecosystem support
• you need features like complex routing, AMQP compliance, or rich consumer tooling

Facets

service · maturity maintenance

message-queue http-server concurrency microservices developer-tools c cli self-hosted job-queue in-memory redis-like fault-tolerant producer-consumer messaging linux macos

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