# apache/shardingsphere-elasticjob

Distributed scheduled job

Repository: https://github.com/apache/shardingsphere-elasticjob
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/shardingsphere-elasticjob
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: scheduled-jobs, cron, job, job-management, quartz, elasticjob, database, shard, middleware
Last push: 2026-07-29T11:01:30+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 76/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 37, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4009, "days_push": 35, "days_rel": 207, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 8209, forks 3246 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:19.584715+00:00)

## What it is
Apache ElasticJob is a distributed scheduled job framework for the JVM that provides flexible scheduling, job sharding, and resource management for Internet-scale applications. It offers a unified job API so developers can code once and deploy across a scalable, decentralized cluster.

## Use cases
- run scheduled jobs across a distributed cluster
- shard batch jobs to scale out throughput
- replace Quartz with a distributed cron scheduler
- ensure high availability of scheduled tasks with failover
- manage and monitor many scheduled jobs from one console
- scale job processing by simply adding servers

## When to choose
- you need cron-style scheduled jobs that scale horizontally across JVM servers
- you want job sharding and elastic scale-out without a central scheduler
- you need high availability and failover for background tasks in Java services

## When to avoid
- you only need simple single-node cron scheduling
- your stack is not on the JVM
- you need a full workflow orchestration engine with DAG dependencies

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: scheduling, workflow-automation, middleware
- domain: microservices, backend, developer-tools
- platform: jvm, cloud
- tags: distributed-scheduling, job-sharding, cron, quartz, elasticjob, job-management, high-availability, apache, automation, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- apache/shardingsphere-elasticjob (main) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:19.584715+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 2026-08-29T17:29:32.786987+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/apache/shardingsphere-elasticjob (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:19.584715+00:00, sha 894e1ea70152)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.