DelayQ

DelayQ is a Go library that provides job-queue (time-constrained) primitives.

Currently following implementations are supported:

1. inmem.DelayQ: An in-memory queue using modified min-heap for time-constrained dequeue.
2. redis.DelayQ: A production-tested queue using Redis (supports both single-node & cluster) that uses sorted-sets.
3. sql.DelayQ: An implementation backed by any SQL database.

Features

• Simple - More like a queue primitive to build job-queue instead of being a feature-rich job-queue system.
• Distributed (with redis or sqldb) - Multiple producer/consumer processes connect to a Redis node or cluster.
• Reliable - at-least-once semantics (exactly-once in most cases except for when there are worker crashes)
• Good performance (See Benchmarks).

Usage

For enqueueing items on the delay queue:

_, _ = dq.Enqueue(context.Background(), delayq.Item{
   At:    time.Now().Add(1 * time.Hour),
   Value: "Hello!",
})

Creating a worker to process:

package main

import "github.com/spy16/delayq"

func worker(dq delayq.DelayQ) {
   w := &delayq.Worker{
      Queue:  dq,
      Invoke: myFunc,
   }

   // run worker threads that invoke myFunc for every item.
   if err := w.Run(context.Background()); err != nil {
      log.Fatalf("run exited: %v", err)
   }
}

func myFunc(ctx context.Context, item delayq.Item) error {
   log.Printf("got message: %v", item)
   return nil
}

Benchmarks

Benchmarks can be re-produced using the example application in ./reminder.

Following are few actual benchmark results that I got:

Both Redis and Reminder tool are running on single node with following specs:

• CPU : 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
• Memory: 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

1. With 3 worker processes (30 goroutines, prefetch count 100, poll interval 5ms):
   • 10k jobs are delivered on the exact requested second (~3300 req/second each.)
   • 100k jobs are delivered within 3 seconds. (upto 12000 req/second each.)
2. With 2 worker processes (20 goroutines, prefetch count 1000, poll interval 5ms):
   • 10k jobs are delivered on the exact requested second (~5000 req/second each.)
   • 100k jobs are delivered within 3 seconds. (upto 20000 req/second each.)