What 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 Message Queue category of a tech stack.
Sandglass is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Sandglass's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Sandglass?
Developers
Sandglass Integrations
Python, Node.js, Java, Ruby, and Golang are some of the popular tools that integrate with Sandglass. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Sandglass.
Sandglass's Features
- Horizontal scalability
- Highly available
- Persistent storage
- Time ordered
- Multiple consumers per group for a partition
- Produce message to be consumed in the future
- Acknowledge/NotAcknowledge each message individually
- Automatic redelivery and commit offset tracking
- Language agnostic
Sandglass Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Sandglass?
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
