What are good queue replacements? My problem with activemq et. al. style queues is that monitoring them is much harder than a simple database. Ie. checking for

What are good queue replacements? My problem with activemq et. al. style queues is that monitoring them is much harder than a simple database. Ie. checking for pending items in the queue and also for debuggin processed items later. And somehow I don't "trust" these queues as much as a simple database. If I write a row to the database it is there and can easily be checked and used (no queue product has any comman line utilities or sql like general functionality to check the queue etc.) The previously linked article also warns that do not use a database as the backend for the queue solution or you will have worst of both worlds...