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NServiceBus vs NSQ: What are the differences?

What is NServiceBus? *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.

What is NSQ? A realtime distributed messaging platform. 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.

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

NSQ is an open source tool with 15.9K GitHub stars and 2.07K GitHub forks. Here's a link to NSQ's open source repository on GitHub.

Stripe, Docker, and Segment are some of the popular companies that use NSQ, whereas NServiceBus is used by Property Compass, TTC Technology, and Credit Clear. NSQ has a broader approval, being mentioned in 22 company stacks & 50 developers stacks; compared to NServiceBus, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Pramod Nikam
Co Founder at Usability Designs · | 2 upvotes · 548.8K views
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I am looking into IoT World Solution where we have MQTT Broker. This MQTT Broker Sits in one of the Data Center. We are doing a lot of Alert and Alarm related processing on that Data, Currently, we are looking into Solution which can do distributed persistence of log/alert primarily on remote Disk.

Our primary need is to use lightweight where operational complexity and maintenance costs can be significantly reduced. We want to do it on-premise so we are not considering cloud solutions.

We looked into the following alternatives:

Apache Kafka - Great choice but operation and maintenance wise very complex. Rabbit MQ - High availability is the issue, Apache Pulsar - Operational Complexity. NATS - Absence of persistence. Akka Streams - Big learning curve and operational streams.

So we are looking into a lightweight library that can do distributed persistence preferably with publisher and subscriber model. Preferable on JVM stack.

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Naresh Kancharla
Staff Engineer at Nutanix · | 4 upvotes · 546.2K views
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Kafka is best fit here. Below are the advantages with Kafka ACLs (Security), Schema (protobuf), Scale, Consumer driven and No single point of failure.

Operational complexity is manageable with open source monitoring tools.

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Pros of NServiceBus
Pros of NSQ
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    Not as good as alternatives, good job security
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    Brings on-prem issues to the cloud
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    It's in golang
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    Distributed
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    Lightweight
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    Easy setup
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    High throughput
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    Publish-Subscribe
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    Scalable
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    Save data if no subscribers are found
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    Open source
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    Temporarily kept on disk
  • 2
    Simple-to use
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    Free
  • 1
    Topics and channels concept
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    Load balanced
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    Primarily in-memory

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Cons of NServiceBus
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      Long term persistence
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      Get NSQ behavior out of Kafka but not inverse
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      HA

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    What is NServiceBus?

    Performance, scalability, pub/sub, reliable integration, workflow orchestration, and everything else you could possibly want in a service bus.

    What is 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.

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    What tools integrate with NServiceBus?
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      What are some alternatives to NServiceBus and NSQ?
      Azure Service Bus
      It is a cloud messaging system for connecting apps and devices across public and private clouds. You can depend on it when you need highly-reliable cloud messaging service between applications and services, even when one or more is offline.
      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.
      Akka
      Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM.
      MassTransit
      It is free software/open-source .NET-based Enterprise Service Bus software that helps Microsoft developers route messages over MSMQ, RabbitMQ, TIBCO and ActiveMQ service busses, with native support for MSMQ and RabbitMQ.
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