Decision Workspace
elasticq vs circular-buffer vs smallring
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
50
elasticq
experimentalv0.3.0
Thread-safe, dynamically resizable queues with lock-based and lock-free implementations for high-throughput scenarios
64
circular-buffer
growingv1.2.0
Efficient, fixed-size, overwriting circular buffer
58
smallring
experimentalv0.2.2
High-performance ring buffer with automatic stack/heap optimization | 高性能环形缓冲区，支持栈/堆自动优化
Core Metrics
| elasticq | circular-buffer | smallring | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 50 | 64 | 58 |
| Total Downloads | 1.6K | 2.5M | 743 |
| 30d Downloads | 8 | 463.6K | 92 |
| Dependents | 0 | 195 | 13 |
| Releases | 4 | 13 | 10 |
| Last Updated | 106d ago | 200d ago | 75d ago |
| Age | 10m | 3y 1m | 4m |
Health Breakdown
elasticq
Maintenance
13
Quality
14
Community
6
Popularity
4
Documentation
13
circular-buffer
Maintenance
11
Quality
21
Community
12
Popularity
8
Documentation
12
smallring
Maintenance
15
Quality
16
Community
9
Popularity
3
Documentation
15
Technical Details
| elasticq | circular-buffer | smallring | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.3.0 | 1.2.0 | 0.2.2 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | ✗ No |
| License | MIT | BSD-3-Clause | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Dependencies | 19 | 6 | 3 |
| Crate Size | 84KB | 40KB | 66KB |
| Features | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2021 | 2024 | 2024 |
| MSRV | — | 1.87 | 1.87 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •circular-buffer leads with a health score of 64/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •circular-buffer is depended on by 195 crates — strongest ecosystem trust.
- •elasticq, smallring are pre-1.0 — API may change.