What is Graphile Worker?
It is a job queue for PostgreSQL running on Node.js. It allows you to run jobs (e.g. sending emails, performing calculations, generating PDFs, etc) "in the background" so that your HTTP response/application code is not held up. Can be used with any PostgreSQL-backed application. Pairs beautifully with PostGraphile or PostgREST.
Graphile Worker is a tool in the Background Processing category of a tech stack.
Graphile Worker is an open source tool with 1.9K GitHub stars and 104 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Graphile Worker's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Graphile Worker?
Graphile Worker Integrations
Graphile Worker's Features
- Standalone and embedded modes
- Designed to be used both from JavaScript or directly in the database
- Easy to test (recommended: runTaskListOnce util)
- Low latency (typically under 3ms from task schedule to execution, uses LISTEN/NOTIFY to be informed of jobs as they're inserted)
- High performance (uses SKIP LOCKED to find jobs to execute, resulting in faster fetches)
- Small tasks (uses explicit task names / payloads resulting in minimal serialisation/deserialisation overhead)
- Parallel by default
Graphile Worker Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Graphile Worker?
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Redis
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
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