pg-boss
Queueing jobs in Node.js using PostgreSQL like a boss (by timgit)
worker
High performance Node.js/PostgreSQL job queue (also suitable for getting jobs generated by PostgreSQL triggers/functions out into a different work queue) (by graphile)
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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.
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Choose Postgres Queue Technology
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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Jobs use pg-boss, a postgres extension, to queue and run tasks under the hood.
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SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
If you don't want to roll your own, look into https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss
- How/do you handle queue type workflows?
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Which tool/library well adopted to use Postgres as a message broker?
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).
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How to schedule tasks in a Node.js app 🕙
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
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Cluster friendly task scheduler for NodeJS
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
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You don't need distributed systems.
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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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
worker
Posts with mentions or reviews of worker.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-09.
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Postgres as Queue
Big fan of Graphile Worker to handle this job. https://github.com/graphile/worker
- GitHub - graphile/worker: High performance Node.js/PostgreSQL job queue (also suitable for getting jobs generated by PostgreSQL triggers/functions out into a different work queue)
- High performance Node.js/PostgreSQL job queue
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Choose Postgres Queue Technology
I do enjoy using https://github.com/graphile/worker for my postgresql queuing needs. Very scalable, the next release 0.14 even more so, and easy to use.
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PGMQ: Simple Message Queues Built on Postgres
On the same subject (job queue based on PostgreSQL), I'm successfully using the https://github.com/graphile/worker/ (NodeJS) project in production.
Jobs are written in Javascript.
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How Trigger.dev makes serverless background jobs possible
Postgres is used both as a store of state for Runs/Tasks and for the Job queue (we use Graphile Worker).
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Intro to PostGraphile V5 (Part 2): Plugins and Presets
Having now built V5's unified plugins and presets system, I'm extremely pleased with it! I'm so happy, in fact, that I'm looking forward to integrating it with Graphile's other tools such as Graphile Worker (our Postgres-backed job queue) and Graphile Migrate (a lightweight SQL-based migration framework that focuses on DX) once V5 is out and stable.
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SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
Another good library for this is Graphile Worker:
https://github.com/graphile/worker
Uses both listen notify and advisory locks so it is using all the right features. And you can enqueue a job from sql and plpgsql triggers. Nice!
Worker is in Node js.
https://github.com/graphile/worker
- whats the difference bewteen SQL Qeues and server queues ?
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How to schedule tasks in a Node.js app 🕙
See also graphile-worker: https://github.com/graphile/worker (lower latency than pg-boss because it uses LISTEN/NOTIFY)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pg-boss and worker you can also consider the following projects:
celery - Distributed Task Queue (development branch)
dramatiq - A fast and reliable background task processing library for Python 3.
django-postgres-queue - A task queue for django
good_job - Multithreaded, Postgres-based, Active Job backend for Ruby on Rails.
RabbitMQ - Open source RabbitMQ: core server and tier 1 (built-in) plugins
start - Kyoto starter project
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.
r2dbc-postgresql - Postgresql R2DBC Driver
kue - Kue is a priority job queue backed by redis, built for node.js.
BeanstalkD - Beanstalk is a simple, fast work queue.
Chronicle Queue - Micro second messaging that stores everything to disk