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sandglass/sandglass

Sandglass is a distributed, horizontally scalable, persistent, time sorted message queue. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/sandglass/sandglass · Go · Apache-2.0 (permissive) · archived observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

10/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100

Flags: archived

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 3269
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 2930
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1523 stars · 45 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Sandglass is a distributed, horizontally scalable, persistent message queue that orders messages by time. It supports asynchronous task execution and message scheduling, making it usable as a task queue.

Use cases

  • run a distributed message queue with time-ordered delivery
  • schedule messages to be consumed in the future
  • build an asynchronous task queue with automatic redelivery
  • track consumer offsets with ack/nack per message
  • scale messaging horizontally across multiple nodes

When to choose

  • you need a time-sorted, persistent message queue with horizontal scalability
  • you want delayed message delivery and per-message acknowledgements
  • you need a language-agnostic queue with a Go client and CLI

When to avoid

  • you need a production-ready, actively maintained system - the project is an experimental prototype with no recent releases
  • you need a mature ecosystem like Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ
  • you require guaranteed long-term API stability

Facets

service · maturity experimental

message-queue streaming scheduling microservices backend go cross-platform task-queue time-ordered horizontal-scalability persistent-storage message-scheduling messaging linux macos docker

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