pg-boss vs tembo

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pg-boss		tembo
	Project
12	Mentions	4
1,638	Stars	652
-	Growth	17.8%
4.4	Activity	9.8
29 days ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
JavaScript	Language	Rust
MIT License	License	PostgreSQL License

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pg-boss

Posts with mentions or reviews of pg-boss. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-24.

Choose Postgres Queue Technology
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Sep 2023

For running queues on Postgres with Node.js backend(s), I highly recommend https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss. I'm sure it has it scale limits. But if you're one of the 90% of the apps that never needs any kind of scale that a modern server can't easily handle then it's fantastic. You get transactional queueing of jobs, and it automatically handles syncing across multiple job processing servers using Postgres locks.
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5 projects | dev.to | 28 Jun 2023

Jobs use pg-boss, a postgres extension, to queue and run tasks under the hood.
SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Apr 2023

If you don't want to roll your own, look into https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss
How/do you handle queue type workflows?
1 project | /r/Supabase | 5 Feb 2023
Which tool/library well adopted to use Postgres as a message broker?
1 project | /r/PostgreSQL | 1 Feb 2023

I saw this https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss but it's more for jobs than for message with multiple consumers (having their own progress offset).
How to schedule tasks in a Node.js app 🕙
4 projects | /r/node | 25 Jan 2023

The best I've used till now. Has all kind of features and really great when you have a postgres dB in your stack. https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss
Cluster friendly task scheduler for NodeJS
4 projects | /r/node | 31 Oct 2022

Check out these; - https://github.com/mitranim/posterus - https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss - https://github.com/FirebaseExtended/firebase-queue - https://www.npmjs.com/package/rabbit-queue
You don't need distributed systems.
1 project | dev.to | 18 Aug 2022

You can use the simplest option than implement a new service. Keep in mind that every running system can be a job scheduler, you can just use nodejs worker threads, Redis, or even your DB as a job scheduler, check PGBoss for example.
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4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2022

Both! For context, we're currently using https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss as a task queue on top of postgres and it works great. No need to complicate things with Redis. I believe it's quite straightforward to implement a task queue on top of postgres using the SKIP LOCKED functionality.
Devious SQL: Message Queuing Using Native PostgreSQL
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jan 2022

tembo

Posts with mentions or reviews of tembo. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-11.

Tembo Operator: a Rust-Based Kubernetes Operator for Postgres
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2024

Stacks[1] are basically recipes for deploying Postgres for specific use cases. This includes extensions, Postgres configs and application deployments (example: PostgREST)
For examples, you can look at https://github.com/tembo-io/tembo/tree/main/tembo-operator/s...
[1] Blog about Stacks: https://tembo.io/blog/tembo-stacks-intro/
Show HN: One Postgres message queue to rule them all
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2023
SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Apr 2023

Perhaps you mean https://github.com/CoreDB-io/coredb/tree/main/extensions/pgm...
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing pg-boss and tembo you can also consider the following projects:

worker - High performance Node.js/PostgreSQL job queue (also suitable for getting jobs generated by PostgreSQL triggers/functions out into a different work queue)

neoq - Queue-agnostic background job library for Go, with a pleasant API and powerful features.

celery - Distributed Task Queue (development branch)

good_job - Multithreaded, Postgres-based, Active Job backend for Ruby on Rails.

django-postgres-queue - A task queue for django

starqueue

RabbitMQ - Open source RabbitMQ: core server and tier 1 (built-in) plugins

tqs - Tiny Queue Service (Server)

Redis - Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.

pgtt - PostgreSQL extension to create, manage and use Oracle-style Global Temporary Tables and the others RDBMS

kue - Kue is a priority job queue backed by redis, built for node.js.

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