Connect resque to another DB database than redis?

Question

I just read a little about resque here and how you use redis as an "extended keystore" for tasks.

As you know, you can use resque on several machines to process jobs:

Workers can be provided with multiple queues (a "queue list") and run on multiple machines. In fact, they can be run anywhere with network access to a Redis server.

Now my question is ... Is resque able to connect to any other key database, such as SimpleDB or CouchDB? And if so, does that even make sense?

Answer 1

No, it is not capable, since it mainly uses the Redis functions specially written for handlin queues, such as brpopand blpush. The ultimate consistency of CouchDB / SimpleDB does not allow them to be the ideal candidate for queues; an AMQP implementation such as RabbitMQ is suitable, but cannot be used with Resque.