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Comment by SideburnsOfDoom

I have heard it said many times that it is a bad idea to implement message queues over a relational SQL database.

e.g.

"Databases suck for Messaging" https://www.rabbitmq.com/resources/RabbitMQ_Oxford_Geek_Nigh...

http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/04/database-as-queue-ant...

https://www.cloudamqp.com/blog/2015-11-23-why-is-a-database-...

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3514...

I wonder if the designers of this system disagree, or if they did anything in particular to mitigate these issues?

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