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ActiveMQ vs Confluent: What are the differences?
What is ActiveMQ? A message broker written in Java together with a full JMS client. 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.
What is Confluent? We make a stream data platform to help companies harness their high volume real-time data streams. It is a data streaming platform based on Apache Kafka: a full-scale streaming platform, capable of not only publish-and-subscribe, but also the storage and processing of data within the stream.
ActiveMQ belongs to "Message Queue" category of the tech stack, while Confluent can be primarily classified under "Stream Processing".
ActiveMQ is an open source tool with 1.53K GitHub stars and 1.06K GitHub forks. Here's a link to ActiveMQ's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of ActiveMQ
- Easy to use18
- Open source14
- Efficient13
- JMS compliant10
- High Availability6
- Scalable5
- Distributed Network of brokers3
- Persistence3
- Support XA (distributed transactions)3
- Docker delievery1
- Highly configurable1
- RabbitMQ0
Pros of Confluent
- Free for casual use4
- No hypercloud lock-in3
- Dashboard for kafka insight3
- Easily scalable2
- Zero devops2
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Cons of ActiveMQ
- ONLY Vertically Scalable1
- Support1
- Low resilience to exceptions and interruptions1
- Difficult to scale1
Cons of Confluent
- Proprietary1
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