Using HangFire for background job processing without DB storage?

Question

I have an ASP.NET 4.6 web API. The app does not have a standalone DB, and it is a micro-service designed for searching files. I want to implement a CRON job in the background and utilize HangFire. The problem is, seems like storage is mandatory, and Memory Storage is not reccomended for production.

What options do I have?

Answer 1

There isn't any solution to use in production environment but a nuget package exists that help you to use HangFire, it can be useful for testing purpose like check the behavior and use it in a development environment.

• It should not be used in production (no integrity and no thread safe even if many cases are managed).
• Data are stored in memory using a dictionary in a static way (See Data created at the storage creation)

Source: Hangfire.MemoryStorage

nuget package : Hangfire.MemoryStorage

GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.UseMemoryStorage();

Above package can't cover in-memory jobs in production environment, but below library provided conditions that can be used in production mode:

Hangfire.InMemory

This is an attempt to create an efficient transactional in-memory storage for Hangfire with data structures close to their optimal representation. The result of this attempt should enable production-ready usage of this storage implementation and handle particular properties of in-memory processing like avoiding OutOfMemoryException at any cost and moderate load on garbage collection. Of course we can't avoid them entirely, but at least can control them somehow.