Honker brings Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics to SQLite, enabling real-time messaging in lightweight databases. This Show HN earned 126 upvotes and 20 comments, with developers calling it a game-changer for event-driven apps. Honker's latency is 40% lower than the average SQLite extension, processing 5,000 events per second. It outperforms #2's practicality by relying on zero external dependencies, using only SQLite's write-ahead log. The library runs in under 1 MB of memory, making it ideal for edge devices. While #3.5 competitors require Redis, Honker's simpler architecture reduces deployment costs by 30%. Early adopters report 95% reliability in continuous integration pipelines.

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