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I've been using Python RQ (http://python-rq.org/) as a lightweight alternative to celery. It uses Redis as its backend so I guess that might not meet the "SQLite" qualification, but has been light weight enough for my application (e.g. no reqt for a message queue like rabbit). Really liking it so far.

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We're using RQ in production and are very happy with it. We chose it over Celery because the "protocol" is much more straight-forward than Celery - when something fails, I can peek at the state of redis or the RQ source code and know what's going on.

The only downside is that, like Celery, RQ forks for every task. This can feel a bit heavy for some of our simpler tasks, although it hasn't proven to be an issue yet.

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