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ActiveMQ

A message broker written in Java together with a full JMS client

What is ActiveMQ?

Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols, comes with easy to use Enterprise Integration Patterns and many advanced features while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4. Apache ActiveMQ is released under the Apache 2.0 License.
ActiveMQ is a tool in the Message Queue category of a tech stack.
ActiveMQ is an open source tool with 2.2K GitHub stars and 1.4K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to ActiveMQ's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses ActiveMQ?

Companies
98 companies reportedly use ActiveMQ in their tech stacks, including Intuit, Backbase, and RatePAY GmbH.

Developers
415 developers on StackShare have stated that they use ActiveMQ.

ActiveMQ Integrations

Datadog, Netdata, Amazon MQ, SignalFx, and Server Density are some of the popular tools that integrate with ActiveMQ. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with ActiveMQ.
Pros of ActiveMQ
18
Easy to use
14
Open source
13
Efficient
10
JMS compliant
6
High Availability
5
Scalable
3
Distributed Network of brokers
3
Persistence
3
Support XA (distributed transactions)
1
Docker delievery
1
Highly configurable
0
RabbitMQ
Decisions about ActiveMQ

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose ActiveMQ in their tech stack.

I want to choose Message Queue with the following features - Highly Available, Distributed, Scalable, Monitoring. I have RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka and Apache RocketMQ in mind. But I am confused which one to choose.

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ActiveMQ's Features

  • Protect your data & Balance your Load
  • Easy enterprise integration patterns
  • Flexible deployment

ActiveMQ Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to ActiveMQ?
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.
Kafka
Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.
Apollo
Build a universal GraphQL API on top of your existing REST APIs, so you can ship new application features fast without waiting on backend changes.
IBM MQ
It is a messaging middleware that simplifies and accelerates the integration of diverse applications and business data across multiple platforms. It offers proven, enterprise-grade messaging capabilities that skillfully and safely move information.
ZeroMQ
The 0MQ lightweight messaging kernel is a library which extends the standard socket interfaces with features traditionally provided by specialised messaging middleware products. 0MQ sockets provide an abstraction of asynchronous message queues, multiple messaging patterns, message filtering (subscriptions), seamless access to multiple transport protocols and more.
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ActiveMQ's Followers
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