RabbitMQ Alternatives

RabbitMQ is described as 'Complete and highly reliable enterprise messaging system based on the emerging AMQP standard' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to RabbitMQ for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best RabbitMQ alternative is Apache Pulsar, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like RabbitMQ are Zenaton, Amazon Simple Queue Service, Eclipse Mosquitto and ActiveMQ.

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  1. 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 RabbitMQ.

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

    • Apache Pulsar is Free and Open SourceRabbitMQ is also Free and Open Source
  2. Zenaton icon
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    Zenaton is a developer tool and hosted workflow engine for writing, running and monitoring all of your background processes whether it is a single task or a long running workflow. It allows developers to easily integrate third party services and APIs iby triggering tasks and...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Clever Cloud
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Heroku
     
    • Zenaton is the most popular SaaS alternative to RabbitMQ.

    • Zenaton is Freemium and ProprietaryRabbitMQ is 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
     
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    Eclipse Mosquitto is an open source (EPL/EDL licensed) message broker that implements the MQTT protocol versions 5.0, 3.1.1 and 3.1. Mosquitto is lightweight and is suitable for use on all devices from low power single board computers to full servers.

    14 Eclipse Mosquitto alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Raspberry Pi
     
    • Eclipse Mosquitto is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to RabbitMQ.

    • Eclipse Mosquitto is Free and Open SourceRabbitMQ is also Free and Open Source
  5. ActiveMQ icon
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    Apache ActiveMQ is the most popular and powerful open source messaging and Integration Patterns provider.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. 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
     
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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
     
  8. 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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    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
     
    • NoobHub is the most popular Web-based alternative to RabbitMQ.

    • NoobHub is Free and Open SourceRabbitMQ is also Free and Open Source
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    Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
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    Spooled is a high-performance, multi-tenant job queue system designed for reliability, observability, and horizontal scalability.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
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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
     
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