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24 alternatives to Rocketry – Statement-based scheduling framework for Python

Modern scheduling library for Python. Contribute to Miksus/rocketry development by creating an account on GitHub.

Rocketry is a Python scheduling framework that uses statements to define when tasks should run. It's designed for developers who need to schedule jobs with complex timing logic beyond basic cron expressions. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Rocketry – Statement-based scheduling framework for Python launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   A simple lazy Python calculation engine, with spreadsheet demo▲123

   Simple Python Calculation Engine. Contribute to bsdz/calcengine development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Rocket – Web Framework for Rustfree▲484

   2016 · rocket.rs · its alternatives →

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   I built a hardware processor that runs Python▲983

   Hi everyone, I built PyXL — a hardware processor that executes a custom assembly generated from Python programs, without using a traditional interpreter or virtual machine. It compiles Python -> CPython Bytecode -> Instruction set designed for direct hardware execution. I’m sharing an early benchmark: a GPIO test where PyXL achieves a 480ns round-trip toggle — compared to 14-25 micro seconds on a MicroPython Pyboard - even though PyXL runs at a lower clock (100MHz vs. 168MHz). The design is stack-based, fully pipelined, and preserves Python's dynamic typing without static type restrictions.…

   2025 · runpyxl.com · its alternatives →

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   QuickPYTHON▲181

   2020 · timothycrosley.github.io · its alternatives →

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   I wrote a RDBMS (SQLite clone) from scratch in pure Python▲371

   I wrote a relational database management system (RDBMS) (sqlite clone) from scratch in pure Python.

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   DBOS transact – Ultra-lightweight durable execution in Python▲89

   Hi HN - DBOS CEO here with the co-founders of DBOS, Peter (KraftyOne) and Qian (qianli_cs). The company started as a research project of Stanford and MIT, and Peter and Qian were advised by Mike Stonebreaker, the creator of Postgres, and Matei Zaharia, the creator of Spark. They believe so strongly in reliable, serverless compute that they started a company (with Mike) to bring it to the world! Today we want to share our brand new Python library providing ultra-lightweight durable execution. https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-py Durable execution means your program…

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Pythonpy – the swiss army knife of the command line▲220

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   ndscheduler - a flexible python library for building a cron-like system▲7

   A flexible python library for building your own cron-like system, with REST APIs and a Web UI. - Nextdoor/ndscheduler

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   My Single-File Python Script I Used to Replace Splunk in My Startup▲313

   My immediate reaction to today's news that Splunk was being acquired was to comment in the HN discussion for that story: "I hated Splunk so much that I spent a couple days a few months ago writing a single 1200 line python script that does absolutely everything I need in terms of automatic log collection, ingestion, and analysis from a fleet of cloud instances. It pulls in all the log lines, enriches them with useful metadata like the IP address of the instance, the machine name, the log source, the datetime, etc. and stores it all in SQlite, which it then exposes to a very convenient web…

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    FastScheduler – Decorator-first Python task scheduler, async support▲46

    Hi! I've built this because I kept reaching for Celery for simple scheduled tasks and it felt like overkill. I just needed "run this function every hour" or "daily at 9am", not distributed workers. So it's decorators for scheduling (@scheduler.every(5).minutes, @scheduler.daily.at("09:00")), state saves to JSON so jobs survive restarts, and there's an optional FastAPI dashboard if you want to see what's running. No Redis, no message broker, runs in-process with your app. Trade-off is it's single process only — if you need distributed workers, stick with Celery.

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Py-spy – A new sampling profiler for Python programs▲286

    Sampling profiler for Python programs. Contribute to benfred/py-spy development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Prophet – A financial micro-framework in Python▲152

    2014 · blog.michaelsu.io · its alternatives →

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    A design-by-contract Python package in ~100 lines▲58

    Greetings! A 2.5 weekends project to teach myself newer Python features (>= 3.10). Conditions are written as Lambda expressions that annotate parameters and return types, and coexist with type annotations. Symbols to share values between conditions are also supported to a limited extend.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Cron Syntax Cheatsheet▲73

    Cron syntax reference and examples on how to schedule cron jobs to run every minute, at specific time, several times a day, only on workdays, every 15 minutes.

    2017 · healthchecks.io · its alternatives →

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    Pipelines – Language for scripting parrallel pipelines with Python▲69

    An experimental programming language for data flow - calebwin/pipelines

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    KQ – Simple Job Queue for Python Using Kafka▲116

    Kafka-based Job Queue for Python. Contribute to joowani/kq development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Lightweight job scheduling for Node.js▲37

    Lightweight job scheduling for Node.js. Contribute to agenda/agenda development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    WakaQ - a Python distributed task queue▲147

    Open source IDE plugins for programmers.

    2022 · wakatime.com · its alternatives →

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    Pydb – a lightweight database with Python syntax queries, using ZeroMQ▲130

    A lightweight database with Python syntax queries, using ZeroMQ - asrp/pyzdb

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    PyCloud, a Python IDE in the web browser with interactive tutorials▲130

    2011 · jitouch.com · its alternatives →

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    Spreadsheets using Python - Have you seen this?▲97

    2010 · pyspread.sourceforge.net · its alternatives →

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    Async tasks in 350 lines of C▲146

    Tasks are a primitive for asynchronous programming and an alternative to working with threads directly. Instead of creating a thread, performing work, then waiting on it using synchronization primitives, you only define a unit of work and let a scheduler decide when and where to execute it. The threads that the scheduler uses are created once and reused for many tasks throughout the program's lifetime. In most cases, creating and executing a task requires not even a single syscall and is a significantly faster operation than creating a thread, resulting in lower latency. Furthermore, tasks…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Python library for functional programming▲129

    Python library for creating data pipelines with chain functional programming - EntilZha/PyFunctional

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Solid – A comprehensive gradient-free optimization framework in Python▲87

    🎯 A comprehensive gradient-free optimization framework written in Python - 100/Solid

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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