ActiveMQ Alternatives

ActiveMQ is described as 'Apache ActiveMQ is the most popular and powerful open source messaging and Integration Patterns provider' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to ActiveMQ for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Web-based, Mac, Windows and SaaS apps. The best ActiveMQ alternative is RabbitMQ, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ActiveMQ are Apache Pulsar, Amazon Simple Queue Service, ØMQ and NSQ.

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  1. RabbitMQ icon
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    RabbitMQ is a complete and highly reliable enterprise messaging system based on the emerging AMQP standard

    14 RabbitMQ alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • RabbitMQ is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to ActiveMQ.

    • RabbitMQ is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to ActiveMQ.

    • RabbitMQ is Free and Open SourceActiveMQ is also Free and Open Source
  2. Apache Pulsar icon
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    Apache Pulsar is a distributed, open source pub-sub messaging and streaming platform for real-time workloads, managing hundreds of billions of events per day.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Apache Pulsar is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to ActiveMQ.

    • Apache Pulsar is Free and Open SourceActiveMQ is also Free and Open Source
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    Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fast, reliable, scalable & affordable message queuing service. Use SQS to transmit data without losing messages.

    10 Amazon Simple Queue Service alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
     
    • Amazon Simple Queue Service is the most popular SaaS alternative to ActiveMQ.

    • Amazon Simple Queue Service is Freemium and ProprietaryActiveMQ is Free and Open Source
  4. ØMQ icon
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    ØMQ is a high-performance asynchronous messaging library aimed at use in scalable distributed or concurrent applications. It provides a message queue, but unlike message-oriented middleware, a ØMQ system can run without a dedicated message broker.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. NSQ icon
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    NSQ is a realtime distributed messaging platform designed to operate at scale, handling billions of messages per day.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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    nanomsg is a socket library that provides several common communication patterns. It aims to make the networking layer fast, scalable, and easy to use. Implemented in C, it works on a wide range of operating systems with no further dependencies.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. Qutrunk icon
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    Dedicated platform to send and receive messages within your applications. It has simple REST API and clean web UI. It allows to control access to your queues with managed access tokens.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Qutrunk is the most popular Web-based alternative to ActiveMQ.

    • Qutrunk is Free and ProprietaryActiveMQ is Free and Open Source
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    OpenSource multiplayer and network messaging.

    • Connections are routed through socket server with minimum latency, ideal for action games.
    • Simple interface.
    • Server written on blazing fast nodejs.
    • Works great through any NAT (local area network), messages delivery is reliab.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
     
  9. goqite icon
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    goqite (pronounced Go-queue-ite) is a persistent message queue Go library built on SQLite and inspired by AWS SQS (but much simpler).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Pub/Sub works as a messaging middleware for traditional service integration or a simple communication medium for modern microservices.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. Zeplo icon
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    Zeplo lets developers add retry, delay, queue and schedule to HTTP endpoints without setting up Redis, RabbitMQ or SQS. Just prefix any HTTP endpoint with zeplo.to/ and the request is queued.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Zeplo is the most popular commercial alternative to ActiveMQ.

    • Zeplo is Paid and ProprietaryActiveMQ is Free and Open Source
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