Kafka vs NSQ vs RabbitMQ | What are the differences?

Kafka

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Followers8K

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Votes525

NSQ

Stacks101

Followers177

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Votes129

RabbitMQ

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Followers7.5K

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Votes487

Pros of Kafka

Pros of NSQ

Pros of RabbitMQ

112
High-throughput
103
Distributed
83
Scalable
74
High-Performance
62
Durable
34
Publish-Subscribe
17
Simple-to-use
11
Open source
9
Written in Scala and java. Runs on JVM
6
Message broker + Streaming system
4
Avro schema integration
2
Suport Multiple clients
2
KSQL
2
Partioned, replayable log
1
Fun
1
Simple publisher / multi-subscriber model
1
Robust
1
Extremely good parallelism constructs

26
It's in golang
18
Distributed
17
Lightweight
16
Easy setup
15
High throughput
9
Publish-Subscribe
7
Scalable
6
Save data if no subscribers are found
6
Open source
4
Temporarily kept on disk
1
Free
1
Topics and channels concept
1
Load balanced
1
Primarily in-memory
1
Simple-to use

Cons of Kafka

Cons of NSQ

Cons of RabbitMQ

23
Needs Zookeeper
21
Non-Java clients are second-class citizens
4
Operational difficulties
1
Terrible Packaging

1
Long term persistence
1
HA
1
Get NSQ behavior out of Kafka but not inverse

8
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
3
Slow

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 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.