Data Queues在程式間採用非同步(asynchronous)通訊方式, Socket則是則是採同步通訊的方式作業.

Data Queues的好處有

• performance can be dramatically improved over individual submits if the job is complex
• record locking conflicts are eliminated if only one job is updating.
• they can facilitate clean modular design

Data Queues的壞處為

• they are hard to document well - the next programmer will have to think to figure them out
• they can't really be audited, backed up, or for that matter conveniently examined.
• the contents are almost invisible, although smart programmers have written program to read the queue, print the entry, and re-write it.
• Once the entry is read it is gone; if the program halts the entry is lost. This can be gotten around with an audit file; write a record when the entry is written, nad have the receiver program update a status field when done.

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