I've used beanstalkd before. It has transaction, timeout and sleep features. What I don't like about it is that it adds complexity to server setup for such a si

I've used beanstalkd before. It has transaction, timeout and sleep features. What I don't like about it is that it adds complexity to server setup for such a simple thing. I've seen queue libraries built around redis which is a win since I'm already using that for other things (check out hotqueue http://richardhenry.github.com/hotqueue/ http://richardhenry.github.com/hotqueue/).