Azure Service Bus vs Kafka vs RabbitMQ

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Azure Service Bus

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Kafka

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Pros of Azure Service Bus
Pros of Kafka
Pros of RabbitMQ
  • 4
    Easy Integration with .Net
  • 2
    Cloud Native
  • 1
    Use while high messaging need
  • 126
    High-throughput
  • 119
    Distributed
  • 92
    Scalable
  • 86
    High-Performance
  • 66
    Durable
  • 38
    Publish-Subscribe
  • 19
    Simple-to-use
  • 18
    Open source
  • 12
    Written in Scala and java. Runs on JVM
  • 9
    Message broker + Streaming system
  • 4
    KSQL
  • 4
    Avro schema integration
  • 4
    Robust
  • 3
    Suport Multiple clients
  • 2
    Extremely good parallelism constructs
  • 2
    Partioned, replayable log
  • 1
    Simple publisher / multi-subscriber model
  • 1
    Fun
  • 1
    Flexible
  • 235
    It's fast and it works with good metrics/monitoring
  • 80
    Ease of configuration
  • 60
    I like the admin interface
  • 52
    Easy to set-up and start with
  • 22
    Durable
  • 19
    Standard protocols
  • 19
    Intuitive work through python
  • 11
    Written primarily in Erlang
  • 9
    Simply superb
  • 7
    Completeness of messaging patterns
  • 4
    Reliable
  • 4
    Scales to 1 million messages per second
  • 3
    Better than most traditional queue based message broker
  • 3
    Distributed
  • 3
    Supports MQTT
  • 3
    Supports AMQP
  • 2
    Clear documentation with different scripting language
  • 2
    Better routing system
  • 2
    Inubit Integration
  • 2
    Great ui
  • 2
    High performance
  • 2
    Reliability
  • 2
    Open-source
  • 2
    Runs on Open Telecom Platform
  • 2
    Clusterable
  • 2
    Delayed messages
  • 1
    Supports Streams
  • 1
    Supports STOMP
  • 1
    Supports JMS

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Cons of Azure Service Bus
Cons of Kafka
Cons of RabbitMQ
  • 1
    Limited features in Basic tier
  • 1
    Skills can only be used in Azure - vendor lock-in
  • 1
    Lacking in JMS support
  • 1
    Observability of messages in the queue is lacking
  • 32
    Non-Java clients are second-class citizens
  • 29
    Needs Zookeeper
  • 9
    Operational difficulties
  • 5
    Terrible Packaging
  • 9
    Too complicated cluster/HA config and management
  • 6
    Needs Erlang runtime. Need ops good with Erlang runtime
  • 5
    Configuration must be done first, not by your code
  • 4
    Slow

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What is 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.

What is Kafka?

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

What is RabbitMQ?

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

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What are some alternatives to Azure Service Bus, Kafka, and RabbitMQ?
NServiceBus
Performance, scalability, pub/sub, reliable integration, workflow orchestration, and everything else you could possibly want in a service bus.
MSMQ
This technology enables applications running at different times to communicate across heterogeneous networks and systems that may be temporarily offline. Applications send messages to queues and read messages from queues.
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.
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions.
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