Kafka vs NServiceBus vs RabbitMQ

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Pros of Kafka
Pros of NServiceBus
Pros of RabbitMQ
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    High-throughput
  • 119
    Distributed
  • 92
    Scalable
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    High-Performance
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    Durable
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    Publish-Subscribe
  • 19
    Simple-to-use
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    Open source
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    Written in Scala and java. Runs on JVM
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    Message broker + Streaming system
  • 4
    KSQL
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    Avro schema integration
  • 4
    Robust
  • 3
    Suport Multiple clients
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    Extremely good parallelism constructs
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    Partioned, replayable log
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    Simple publisher / multi-subscriber model
  • 1
    Fun
  • 1
    Flexible
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    Not as good as alternatives, good job security
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    Brings on-prem issues to the cloud
  • 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
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    Durable
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    Standard protocols
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    Intuitive work through python
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    Written primarily in Erlang
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    Simply superb
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    Completeness of messaging patterns
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    Reliable
  • 4
    Scales to 1 million messages per second
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    Better than most traditional queue based message broker
  • 3
    Distributed
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    Supports MQTT
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    Supports AMQP
  • 2
    Clear documentation with different scripting language
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    Better routing system
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    Inubit Integration
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    Great ui
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    High performance
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    Reliability
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    Open-source
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    Runs on Open Telecom Platform
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    Clusterable
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    Delayed messages
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    Supports Streams
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    Supports STOMP
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    Supports JMS

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Cons of Kafka
Cons of NServiceBus
Cons of RabbitMQ
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    Non-Java clients are second-class citizens
  • 29
    Needs Zookeeper
  • 9
    Operational difficulties
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    Terrible Packaging
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      Too complicated cluster/HA config and management
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      Needs Erlang runtime. Need ops good with Erlang runtime
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      Configuration must be done first, not by your code
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      Slow

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    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 NServiceBus?

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

    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 Kafka, NServiceBus, and RabbitMQ?
      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.
      Amazon Kinesis
      Amazon Kinesis can collect and process hundreds of gigabytes of data per second from hundreds of thousands of sources, allowing you to easily write applications that process information in real-time, from sources such as web site click-streams, marketing and financial information, manufacturing instrumentation and social media, and operational logs and metering data.
      Apache Spark
      Spark is a fast and general processing engine compatible with Hadoop data. It can run in Hadoop clusters through YARN or Spark's standalone mode, and it can process data in HDFS, HBase, Cassandra, Hive, and any Hadoop InputFormat. It is designed to perform both batch processing (similar to MapReduce) and new workloads like streaming, interactive queries, and machine learning.
      Akka
      Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM.
      Apache Storm
      Apache Storm is a free and open source distributed realtime computation system. Storm makes it easy to reliably process unbounded streams of data, doing for realtime processing what Hadoop did for batch processing. Storm has many use cases: realtime analytics, online machine learning, continuous computation, distributed RPC, ETL, and more. Storm is fast: a benchmark clocked it at over a million tuples processed per second per node. It is scalable, fault-tolerant, guarantees your data will be processed, and is easy to set up and operate.
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