Mosquitto vs NServiceBus: What are the differences?

Developers describe Mosquitto as "An open source message broker that implements the MQTT protocol". It is lightweight and is suitable for use on all devices from low power single board computers to full servers.. The MQTT protocol provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for Internet of Things messaging such as with low power sensors or mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or microcontrollers. On the other hand, NServiceBus is detailed as "*Enterprise-grade scalability and reliability for your workflows and integrations *". Performance, scalability, pub/sub, reliable integration, workflow orchestration, and everything else you could possibly want in a service bus.

Mosquitto and NServiceBus can be primarily classified as "Message Queue" tools.

Mosquitto is an open source tool with 2.81K GitHub stars and 980 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Mosquitto's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Mosquitto has a broader approval, being mentioned in 5 company stacks & 14 developers stacks; compared to NServiceBus, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.