SandglassWhat is Sandglass?
A distributed, horizontally scalable, persistent, time ordered message queue. Developed to support asynchronous tasks and message scheduling which makes it suitable for usage as a task queue.
Sandglass is a tool in the Background Jobs category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Horizontal scalabilityHighly availablePersistent storageTime orderedMultiple consumers per group for a partitionProduce message to be consumed in the futureAcknowledge/NotAcknowledge each message individuallyAutomatic redelivery and commit offset trackingLanguage agnostic
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Sandglass Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Sandglass?
Kafka
Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.
Amazon SQS
Transmit any volume of data, at any level of throughput, without losing messages or requiring other services to be always available. With SQS, you can offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available messaging cluster, while paying a low price for only what you use.
Celery
Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.
