BullMQ Runtime Benchmark

Benchmark comparing BullMQ performance on Node.js vs Bun runtimes.

Prerequisites

• Node.js v18+
• Bun v1.0+
• Redis server running on localhost (or set REDIS_HOST env var)

Installation

# Using npm
npm install

# Using Bun (faster)
bun install

Running Benchmarks

There are two benchmark scripts:

• benchmark.js - Simple JavaScript benchmark
• runtime-comparison.ts - Comprehensive TypeScript benchmark with more tests

Simple Benchmark (JavaScript)

# Node.js
npm run bench:node

# Bun
npm run bench:bun

Comprehensive Benchmark (TypeScript)

# Node.js (using tsx)
npm run bench:node:ts

# Bun
npm run bench:bun:ts

Benchmark Tests

1. Job Addition - Adding 1000 jobs individually using Queue.add()
2. Bulk Addition - Adding 5000 jobs at once using Queue.addBulk()
3. Job Processing - Processing 1000 jobs with concurrency=10
4. Flow Producer - Creating 100 flows with 2 children each

Environment Variables

• REDIS_HOST - Redis host (default: localhost)

License

MIT