Should I use Celery or Carrot for a Django project?

python django message-queue rabbitmq amqp
rick picture rick · Jul 9, 2009 · Viewed 7.1k times · Source

I'm a little confused as to which one I should use. I think either will work, but is one better or more appropriate than the other?

http://github.com/ask/carrot/tree/master

http://github.com/ask/celery/tree/master

Answer

Vinay Sajip picture Vinay Sajip · Jul 9, 2009

If you need to send/receive messages to/from AMQP message queues, use carrot.

If you want to run scheduled tasks on a number of machines, use celery.

If you're making soup, use both ;-)

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