Horizon Db Driver

A database storage driver for Laravel Horizon, for teams that want Horizon's dashboard and job-monitoring workflow without running Redis. It swaps Horizon's Redis-backed lock, repositories, and command queue for SQL-table-backed equivalents, and registers a database queue connector that emits the same Horizon events the Redis connector does.

This package does not fork or modify Horizon. It requires the official laravel/horizon package and layers a second service provider on top that rebinds the relevant container singletons after Horizon's own provider has registered them.

Requirements

• PHP ^8.0
• Laravel (illuminate/contracts, illuminate/database, illuminate/support) ^9.21, ^10.0, ^11.0, ^12.0, or ^13.0
• laravel/horizon ^5.0, already installed and configured — see Horizon's own installation docs

Origin

All of the database driver logic in this package — the repositories, the lock, the command queue, the queue connector, the migration — is Steve Bauman's work from laravel/horizon#1762, a pull request against Horizon itself. Taylor Otwell closed it with:

While I respect the effort and the idea, I don't personally want to be responsible for maintaining a DB version of Horizon right now. I think it could be a cool community package / fork though!

This package is that community package: Steve's implementation adapted to run alongside the official laravel/horizon package via container bindings, instead of as a fork of it.

Next steps

• Quick Start — the fastest path to a working dashboard.
• Installation — install the package and publish its migrations.
• Configuration — the enabled flag and connection option.
• Usage — point a queue connection at the database driver.
• Switching from Redis — Horizon defaults that still assume Redis.