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Google Cloud Pub/Sub vs NATS: What are the differences?

Google Cloud Pub/Sub: Global service for real-time and reliable messaging and streaming data. Cloud Pub/Sub is a fully-managed real-time messaging service that allows you to send and receive messages between independent applications. You can leverage Cloud Pub/Sub’s flexibility to decouple systems and components hosted on Google Cloud Platform or elsewhere on the Internet; NATS: Lightweight publish-subscribe & distributed queueing messaging system. Unlike traditional enterprise messaging systems, NATS has an always-on dial tone that does whatever it takes to remain available. This forms a great base for building modern, reliable, and scalable cloud and distributed systems.

Google Cloud Pub/Sub and NATS belong to "Realtime Backend / API" category of the tech stack.

According to the StackShare community, Google Cloud Pub/Sub has a broader approval, being mentioned in 73 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to NATS, which is listed in 27 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

Pros of Google Cloud Pub/Sub

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Easy to set-up and start with

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Fastest pub-sub system out there
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Rock solid
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Easy to grasp
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Easy, Fast, Secure

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Cons of Google Cloud Pub/Sub

Cons of NATS

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Need integration with stackdriver for monitoring

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What is Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

Cloud Pub/Sub is a fully-managed real-time messaging service that allows you to send and receive messages between independent applications. You can leverage Cloud Pub/Sub’s flexibility to decouple systems and components hosted on Google Cloud Platform or elsewhere on the Internet.

What is NATS?

Unlike traditional enterprise messaging systems, NATS has an always-on dial tone that does whatever it takes to remain available. This forms a great base for building modern, reliable, and scalable cloud and distributed systems.

What companies use Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

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What tools integrate with Google Cloud Pub/Sub?

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What are some alternatives to Google Cloud Pub/Sub and NATS?

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

Firebase

Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.

Socket.IO

It enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication. It works on every platform, browser or device, focusing equally on reliability and speed.

Pusher

Pusher is the category leader in delightful APIs for app developers building communication and collaboration features.

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News about Google Cloud Pub/Sub

Guest post: building IoT applications with MQTT and Google Cloud Pub/Sub

(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)

Jan 30, 2017

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