# antirez/disque

Disque is a distributed message broker

Repository: https://github.com/antirez/disque
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/disque
Language: C
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2021-03-17T14:10:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4146, "days_push": 1995, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 8074, forks 533 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:12.518659+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: message-queue, http-server, concurrency
- domain: microservices, developer-tools
- platform: c, cli, self-hosted
- tags: job-queue, in-memory, redis-like, fault-tolerant, producer-consumer, messaging, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- antirez/disque (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:12.518659+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:31:20.985472+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/antirez/disque (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:12.518659+00:00, sha d5ebb5c57bdc)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.