pgmq VS pg-boss

And lots of interesting extensions use it, like

https://github.com/tembo-io/pgmq

https://github.com/zombodb/zombodb

https://github.com/supabase/pg_jsonschema

Have you considered https://github.com/tembo-io/pgmq for the queue bit?

some notes about pgmq, https://github.com/tembo-io/pgmq, that is on this list. It is built as an extension in Postgres, which makes it compatible with all languages that have a Postgres driver.

There's no 'magic' to it, it uses existing Postgres features so all the performance and consistency guarantees of Postgres are to be expected. Easily gets to 10k+ concurrent reads and writes even on smaller sized Postgres instances, which is more than most applications need.

Newer project but there's no library needed. https://github.com/tembo-io/pgmq. They have a pretty simple SQL api similar to SQS. It's an extension though, so some cloud provider will not support it.

PGMQ does not require a client library, https://github.com/tembo-io/pgmq so long as your language of choice can run SQL. All the functions live in Postgres, and you just call them with SQL statement. Very similar feel and semantics to SQS.

These tasks are managed by pg-boss behind the scenes (which is based on PostgreSQL) and, oh look, that seamlessly connects to...

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.

Jobs use pg-boss, a postgres extension, to queue and run tasks under the hood.

If you don't want to roll your own, look into https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss

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).

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

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 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.

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.