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Job queue

A library or service that stores background jobs or tasks and runs them with workers, with retries (a task queue); not a general message broker.

The 38repositories with this Tag gained +1,451 net stars in the last 30 days, 3% more than the 30 days before.

0 created in the last 90 days · 16 published a release in the last 30 days · 252K stars in total

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Net stars each day, last 30 days+308 last 7 days

Oct 5, 2026Nov 3, 2026

  • Seed Dataset
  • Rising Admissions

Most net stars, last 30 days

triggerdotdev/trigger.dev

Trigger.dev – build and deploy durable AI agents and workflows

+264

18% of the net stars of this Tag

Largest Pace, last 30 days

celery/celery

Distributed Task Queue (development branch)

2.1×

+225 net stars, against +108 in the 30 days before

Most stars, created in the last 90 days

No other repository with this Tag was created in the last 90 days.

Where the stars went, last 13 weeks

Net stars gained each week. The repositories that gained the most have their own color.

triggerdotdev/trigger.dev gained 19% of the net stars of this Tag in the last 13 weeks.

triggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Aug 11: +82 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Aug 11: +44 net starscelery/celery, week to Aug 11: +23 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Aug 11: +32 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Aug 11: +26 net starsAll other repositories, week to Aug 11: +174 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Aug 18: +92 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Aug 18: +37 net starscelery/celery, week to Aug 18: +20 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Aug 18: +34 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Aug 18: +36 net starsAll other repositories, week to Aug 18: +150 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Aug 25: +71 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Aug 25: +43 net starscelery/celery, week to Aug 25: +36 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Aug 25: +23 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Aug 25: +25 net starsAll other repositories, week to Aug 25: +168 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Sep 1: +61 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Sep 1: +44 net starscelery/celery, week to Sep 1: +31 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Sep 1: +23 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Sep 1: +34 net starsAll other repositories, week to Sep 1: +180 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Sep 8: +49 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Sep 8: +75 net starscelery/celery, week to Sep 8: +27 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Sep 8: +29 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Sep 8: +16 net starsAll other repositories, week to Sep 8: +130 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Sep 15: +55 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Sep 15: +46 net starscelery/celery, week to Sep 15: +29 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Sep 15: +37 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Sep 15: +35 net starsAll other repositories, week to Sep 15: +131 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Sep 22: +89 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Sep 22: +39 net starscelery/celery, week to Sep 22: +27 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Sep 22: +42 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Sep 22: +27 net starsAll other repositories, week to Sep 22: +143 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Sep 29: +71 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Sep 29: +48 net starscelery/celery, week to Sep 29: +21 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Sep 29: +27 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Sep 29: +21 net starsAll other repositories, week to Sep 29: +172 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Oct 6: +53 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Oct 6: +48 net starscelery/celery, week to Oct 6: +23 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Oct 6: +22 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Oct 6: +27 net starsAll other repositories, week to Oct 6: +113 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Oct 13: +62 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Oct 13: +37 net starscelery/celery, week to Oct 13: +47 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Oct 13: +27 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Oct 13: +32 net starsAll other repositories, week to Oct 13: +146 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Oct 20: +62 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Oct 20: +53 net starscelery/celery, week to Oct 20: +56 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Oct 20: +23 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Oct 20: +27 net starsAll other repositories, week to Oct 20: +140 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Oct 27: +47 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Oct 27: +34 net starscelery/celery, week to Oct 27: +68 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Oct 27: +37 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Oct 27: +26 net starsAll other repositories, week to Oct 27: +115 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Nov 3: +72 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Nov 3: +29 net starscelery/celery, week to Nov 3: +47 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Nov 3: +30 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Nov 3: +29 net starsAll other repositories, week to Nov 3: +101 net stars

Compare growth

38 repositories with this Tag. Select a column name to change the order.

#RepositoryStarsGained, 7 daysPace
1triggerdotdev/trigger.dev

Trigger.dev – build and deploy durable AI agents and workflows

17K+721.5×
2celery/celery

Distributed Task Queue (development branch)

29K+470.7×
3skypilot-org/skypilot

The AI Compute Platform for frontier teams. SkyPilot turns fragmented AI compute into one AI supercomputer, so frontier AI teams build custom intelligence faster.

11K+300.8×
4hatchet-dev/hatchet

🪓 An orchestration engine for background tasks, AI agents, and durable workflows

8.2K+290.9×
5riverqueue/river

The polyglot queue: Fast and reliable background jobs in Go, Java, JS, Ruby, and Rust on Postgres/SQLite.

5.9K+291.1×
6timgit/pg-boss

Queueing jobs in Postgres from Node.js like a boss

4.1K+251.0×
7taskforcesh/bullmq

BullMQ - Message Queue and Batch processing for NodeJS, Python, .NET, Elixir, Rust and PHP based on Redis or PostgreSQL

9.6K+190.7×
8hibiken/asynq

Simple, reliable, and efficient distributed task queue in Go

14K+11–
9oban-bg/oban

💎 Robust job processing in Elixir, backed by modern PostgreSQL, SQLite3, and MySQL

4K+7–
10graphile/worker

High performance Node.js/PostgreSQL job queue (also suitable for getting jobs generated by PostgreSQL triggers/functions out into a different work queue)

2.4K+6–
11HangfireIO/Hangfire

An easy way to perform background job processing in .NET and .NET Core applications. No Windows Service or separate process required

10K+5–
12RichardKnop/machinery

Machinery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.

8K+5–
13OptimalBits/bull

Premium Queue package for handling distributed jobs and messages in NodeJS.

16K+3–
14sidekiq/sidekiq

Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby

14K+3–
15Bogdanp/dramatiq

A fast and reliable background task processing library for Python 3.

5.3K+3–
16rq/rq

Simple job queues for Python

11K+2–
17coleifer/huey

a little task queue for python

6.1K+2–
18jamesmh/coravel

Near-zero config .NET library that makes advanced application features like Task Scheduling, Caching, Queuing, Event Broadcasting, and more a breeze!

4.3K+2–
19jobrunr/jobrunr

An extremely easy way to perform background processing in Java. Backed by persistent storage. Open and free for commercial use.

3.1K+2–
20taskiq-python/taskiq

Distributed task queue with full async support

2.4K+2–

Faster than the 30 days before

Net stars of the last 30 days are 2 or more times those of the 30 days before.

  1. celery/celery2.1× · +225

Slower than the 30 days before

Net stars of the last 30 days are 50% or less of those of the 30 days before.

No repository with this Tag meets this rule now.

New in the last 90 days

Created on GitHub in the last 90 days.

No repository with this Tag meets this rule now.

Older than 2 years, still releasing

Created more than 2 years ago, with a push in the last 7 days and a GitHub release in the last 30 days.

  1. celery/celery29K · release 17 days ago
  2. triggerdotdev/trigger.dev17K · release 5 days ago
  3. skypilot-org/skypilot11K · release 6 days ago
  4. rq/rq11K · release 7 days ago
  5. agenda/agenda9.7K · release 4 days ago
All 16 in the table

Last release more than 180 days ago

The newest GitHub release is more than 180 days old. A repository that never published a release is not in this list.

  1. OptimalBits/bull16K · release last year
  2. hibiken/asynq14K · release 9 months ago
  3. antirez/disque8.1K · release 10 years ago
  4. RichardKnop/machinery8K · release last year
  5. collectiveidea/delayed_job4.8K · release 10 months ago
All 12 in the table

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