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Amazon MQ vs VerneMQ

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Overview

VerneMQ
VerneMQ
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Amazon MQ
Amazon MQ
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Amazon MQ vs VerneMQ: What are the differences?

Introduction

Amazon MQ and VerneMQ are both messaging brokers that provide message queuing and publish-subscribe functionalities. While they share some similarities, there are key differences that set them apart. In this comparison, we will highlight six major differences between Amazon MQ and VerneMQ.

  1. Managed Service vs. Open Source Solution: Amazon MQ is a fully managed service provided by Amazon Web Services, which means that the infrastructure and maintenance tasks are handled by AWS. On the other hand, VerneMQ is an open source solution that requires manual setup, configuration, and maintenance by the user.

  2. Cloud vs. Self-hosted: Amazon MQ is hosted in the cloud and accessible through the AWS Console or API, providing scalability and high availability out of the box. VerneMQ, however, needs to be self-hosted on a server or cloud instance, requiring user-provided scalability and ensuring high availability through manual setup.

  3. Protocol Support: Amazon MQ supports a wide range of messaging protocols including MQTT, AMQP, OpenWire, and STOMP, making it compatible with various messaging clients and devices. VerneMQ, on the other hand, is focused on providing support mainly for MQTT, with limited or no support for other protocols.

  4. Integration with AWS Services: Amazon MQ seamlessly integrates with other AWS services such as Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon CloudFormation, allowing for easy event-driven architectures and integration with serverless functions. VerneMQ, being a standalone solution, does not offer built-in integration with these AWS services, requiring additional development effort for integration.

  5. Scalability and Elasticity: Amazon MQ provides automatic scaling and elasticity, allowing the messaging infrastructure to grow or shrink based on demand, ensuring optimal performance and resource utilization. VerneMQ, being self-hosted, requires manual configuration and setup for scaling and elasticity, which may involve additional operational overhead.

  6. Support and Documentation: Amazon MQ is a commercial service with dedicated support from Amazon Web Services, offering technical assistance, troubleshooting, and documentation. VerneMQ, being an open source solution, relies on community support and may not have the same level of dedicated support or comprehensive documentation as a commercially supported service.

In summary, Amazon MQ is a fully managed service provided by Amazon Web Services, offering easy setup, scalability, and integration with other AWS services. VerneMQ, being an open source solution, requires manual configuration and setup, providing greater flexibility and customization but lacking the managed service benefits and extensive integration options of Amazon MQ.

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Advice on VerneMQ, Amazon MQ

MITHIRIDI
MITHIRIDI

Software Engineer at LightMetrics

May 8, 2020

Needs adviceonAmazon SQSAmazon SQSAmazon MQAmazon MQ

I want to schedule a message. Amazon SQS provides a delay of 15 minutes, but I want it in some hours.

Example: Let's say a Message1 is consumed by a consumer A but somehow it failed inside the consumer. I would want to put it in a queue and retry after 4hrs. Can I do this in Amazon MQ? I have seen in some Amazon MQ videos saying scheduling messages can be done. But, I'm not sure how.

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Detailed Comparison

VerneMQ
VerneMQ
Amazon MQ
Amazon MQ

VerneMQ is a distributed MQTT message broker, implemented in Erlang/OTP. It's open source, and Apache 2 licensed. VerneMQ implements the MQTT 3.1, 3.1.1 and 5.0 specifications.

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud.

Open Source, Apache 2 licensed; QoS 0, QoS 1, QoS 2; MQTT v5.0 fully implemented; Basic Authentication and Authorization; Bridge Support; $SYS Tree for monitoring and reporting; TLS (SSL) Encryption; Websockets Support; Cluster Support with sophisticated self-healing mechanisms; Queue Migration; Prometheus Monitoring; Logging (Console, Files, Syslog); Reporting to Graphite; Extensible Plugin architecture (Erlang, Elixir, Lua); WebHooks Plugins; Multiple Sessions per ClientId; Shared Subscriptions; Proxy Protocol v1, v2;
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Statistics
Stacks
31
Stacks
55
Followers
136
Followers
325
Votes
6
Votes
12
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 1
    Proxy Protocol support
  • 1
    Open Source Plugin System
  • 1
    Open Source Message and Metadata Persistence
  • 1
    Open source shared subscriptions
  • 1
    Fully open source clustering
Pros
  • 7
    Supports low IQ developers
  • 3
    Supports existing protocols (JMS, NMS, AMQP, STOMP, …)
  • 2
    Easy to migrate existing messaging service
Cons
  • 4
    Slow AF
Integrations
MySQL
MySQL
MongoDB
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Memcached
Memcached
Redis
Redis
AWS IAM
AWS IAM
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch
ActiveMQ
ActiveMQ

What are some alternatives to VerneMQ, Amazon MQ?

Kafka

Kafka

Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.

Celery

Celery

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.

Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS

Transmit any volume of data, at any level of throughput, without losing messages or requiring other services to be always available. With SQS, you can offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available messaging cluster, while paying a low price for only what you use.

NSQ

NSQ

NSQ is a realtime distributed messaging platform designed to operate at scale, handling billions of messages per day. It promotes distributed and decentralized topologies without single points of failure, enabling fault tolerance and high availability coupled with a reliable message delivery guarantee. See features & guarantees.

ActiveMQ

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.

ZeroMQ

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.

Apache NiFi

Apache NiFi

An easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data. It supports powerful and scalable directed graphs of data routing, transformation, and system mediation logic.

Gearman

Gearman

Gearman allows you to do work in parallel, to load balance processing, and to call functions between languages. It can be used in a variety of applications, from high-availability web sites to the transport of database replication events.

Memphis

Memphis

Highly scalable and effortless data streaming platform. Made to enable developers and data teams to collaborate and build real-time and streaming apps fast.

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