russellromney/honker

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3015 stars · 75 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A SQLite loadable extension plus multi-language bindings that add Postgres-style NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics, durable task queues, event streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduling directly inside a SQLite database file. It enables transactional outbox patterns where business writes and job enqueues commit atomically, without needing Redis, Celery, or any external broker.

Use cases

• add a durable background job queue to a SQLite-backed app without running Redis or Celery
• implement the transactional outbox pattern so business inserts and enqueued jobs commit or roll back together
• send cross-process notifications between workers sharing one SQLite file
• build durable event streams with per-consumer offsets that resume after crashes
• schedule recurring tasks with cron or @every expressions from a SQLite database
• enqueue work in one language and consume it in another via shared on-disk format
• replace polling-based queue tables with push-like low-latency wakeups

When to choose

• SQLite is your primary datastore and you need queues, pub/sub, or scheduling without adding a second datastore or broker
• you want atomic enqueue with business writes in the same transaction
• you need cross-language workers sharing the same queue file
• you want single-digit-millisecond cross-process wake latency with zero infrastructure

When to avoid

• you need workflow DAGs, task chains, groups, or chords (explicitly out of scope)
• you need multi-writer replication or distributed locking across machines
• your workload requires a networked message broker or multi-node fan-out
• you need beta-quality or stable software (it is alpha)

Facets

library · maturity experimental

message-queue database scheduling caching concurrency databases backend developer-tools python rust go ruby jvm dotnet cpp elixir cross-platform cli sqlite-extension notify-listen task-queue pubsub event-streams transactional-outbox cron-scheduler dead-letter bindings no-broker messaging automation nodejs

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