Kafka vs RabbitMQ vs Sandglass

Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

Kafka

23K
21.6K
+ 1
607
RabbitMQ

20.9K
18.4K
+ 1
527
Sandglass

1
6
+ 1
0
Get Advice from developers at your company using StackShare Enterprise. Sign up for StackShare Enterprise.
Learn More
Pros of Kafka
Pros of RabbitMQ
Pros of Sandglass
  • 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
  • 234
    It's fast and it works with good metrics/monitoring
  • 79
    Ease of configuration
  • 59
    I like the admin interface
  • 50
    Easy to set-up and start with
  • 21
    Durable
  • 18
    Intuitive work through python
  • 18
    Standard protocols
  • 10
    Written primarily in Erlang
  • 8
    Simply superb
  • 6
    Completeness of messaging patterns
  • 3
    Scales to 1 million messages per second
  • 3
    Reliable
  • 2
    Distributed
  • 2
    Supports MQTT
  • 2
    Better than most traditional queue based message broker
  • 2
    Supports AMQP
  • 1
    Clusterable
  • 1
    Clear documentation with different scripting language
  • 1
    Great ui
  • 1
    Inubit Integration
  • 1
    Better routing system
  • 1
    High performance
  • 1
    Runs on Open Telecom Platform
  • 1
    Delayed messages
  • 1
    Reliability
  • 1
    Open-source
    Be the first to leave a pro

    Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions

    Cons of Kafka
    Cons of RabbitMQ
    Cons of Sandglass
    • 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
      Be the first to leave a con

      Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions

      - No public GitHub repository available -

      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.

      What is Sandglass?

      A distributed, horizontally scalable, persistent, time ordered message queue. Developed to support asynchronous tasks and message scheduling which makes it suitable for usage as a task queue.

      Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

      What companies use Kafka?
      What companies use RabbitMQ?
      What companies use Sandglass?
        No companies found

        Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions

        What tools integrate with Kafka?
        What tools integrate with RabbitMQ?
        What tools integrate with Sandglass?

        Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions

        Blog Posts

        Dec 22 2021 at 5:41AM

        Pinterest

        MySQLKafkaDruid+3
        3
        569
        Amazon S3KafkaZookeeper+5
        8
        1566
        Mar 24 2021 at 12:57PM

        Pinterest

        GitJenkinsKafka+7
        3
        2139
        What are some alternatives to Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Sandglass?
        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.
        See all alternatives