NServiceBus vs ZeroMQ

Overview

ZeroMQ

Stacks258

Followers586

Votes71

GitHub Stars10.6K

Forks2.5K

NServiceBus

Stacks76

Followers132

Votes2

NServiceBus vs ZeroMQ: What are the differences?

NServiceBus: *Enterprise-grade scalability and reliability for your workflows and integrations *. Performance, scalability, pub/sub, reliable integration, workflow orchestration, and everything else you could possibly want in a service bus; ZeroMQ: Fast, lightweight messaging library that allows you to design complex communication system without much effort. The 0MQ lightweight messaging kernel is a library which extends the standard socket interfaces with features traditionally provided by specialised messaging middleware products. 0MQ sockets provide an abstraction of asynchronous message queues, multiple messaging patterns, message filtering (subscriptions), seamless access to multiple transport protocols and more.

NServiceBus and ZeroMQ belong to "Message Queue" category of the tech stack.

ZeroMQ is an open source tool with 5.43K GitHub stars and 1.59K GitHub forks. Here's a link to ZeroMQ's open source repository on GitHub.

Binary.com, GrowSumo, and Runbook are some of the popular companies that use ZeroMQ, whereas NServiceBus is used by Property Compass, TTC Technology, and Credit Clear. ZeroMQ has a broader approval, being mentioned in 45 company stacks & 88 developers stacks; compared to NServiceBus, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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ZeroMQ	NServiceBus
The 0MQ lightweight messaging kernel is a library which extends the standard socket interfaces with features traditionally provided by specialised messaging middleware products. 0MQ sockets provide an abstraction of asynchronous message queues, multiple messaging patterns, message filtering (subscriptions), seamless access to multiple transport protocols and more.	Performance, scalability, pub/sub, reliable integration, workflow orchestration, and everything else you could possibly want in a service bus.
Connect your code in any language, on any platform.;Carries messages across inproc, IPC, TCP, TPIC, multicast.;Smart patterns like pub-sub, push-pull, and router-dealer.;High-speed asynchronous I/O engines, in a tiny library.;Backed by a large and active open source community.;Supports every modern language and platform.;Build any architecture: centralized, distributed, small, or large.;Free software with full commercial support.	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars 10.6K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 2.5K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 258	Stacks 76
Followers 586	Followers 132
Votes 71	Votes 2
Pros & Cons
Pros 23 Fast 20 Lightweight 11 Transport agnostic 7 No broker required 4 Low level APIs are in C Cons 5 No message durability 3 Not a very reliable system - message delivery wise 1 M x N problem with M producers and N consumers	Pros 1 Not as good as alternatives, good job security 1 Brings on-prem issues to the cloud

What are some alternatives to ZeroMQ, NServiceBus?

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.

Celery

Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.

Amazon SQS

Transmit any volume of data, at any level of throughput, without losing messages or requiring other services to be always available. With SQS, you can offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available messaging cluster, while paying a low price for only what you use.

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.

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.

Apache NiFi

An easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data. It supports powerful and scalable directed graphs of data routing, transformation, and system mediation logic.

Gearman

Gearman allows you to do work in parallel, to load balance processing, and to call functions between languages. It can be used in a variety of applications, from high-availability web sites to the transport of database replication events.

Memphis

Highly scalable and effortless data streaming platform. Made to enable developers and data teams to collaborate and build real-time and streaming apps fast.

IronMQ

An easy-to-use highly available message queuing service. Built for distributed cloud applications with critical messaging needs. Provides on-demand message queuing with advanced features and cloud-optimized performance.