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?
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
