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 SaaS apps. The best RabbitMQ alternative is Intent Bus, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like RabbitMQ are Apache Pulsar, Zenaton, Amazon Simple Queue Service and Eclipse Mosquitto.

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  1. Intent Bus icon

    Intent Bus

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    Intent Bus is a lightweight, distributed job coordinator designed for developers who want reliable task execution without managing broker infrastructure.

    81 Intent Bus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
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  2. Apache Pulsar icon

    Apache Pulsar

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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

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Zenaton icon

    Zenaton

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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
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Clever Cloud
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Heroku
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  5. Amazon Simple Queue Service icon

    Amazon Simple Queue Service

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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
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
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  6. Eclipse Mosquitto icon

    Eclipse Mosquitto

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Raspberry Pi
     
  7. ActiveMQ icon

    ActiveMQ

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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
     
  9. ØMQ icon

    ØMQ

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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.

    12 ØMQ alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    nanomsg

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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
     
  11. NSQ icon

    NSQ

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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 (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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    NoobHub

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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
     
  13. Celery: Distributed Task Queue icon

    Celery: Distributed Task Queue

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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
     
  14. Spooled Cloud icon

    Spooled Cloud

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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