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ActiveMQ vs CloudAMQP comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

ActiveMQ
Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
28
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
CloudAMQP
Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software
10th
Average Rating
9.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category, the mindshare of ActiveMQ is 20.1%, down from 26.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CloudAMQP is 0.1%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Message Queue (MQ) Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ActiveMQ20.1%
CloudAMQP0.1%
Other79.8%
Message Queue (MQ) Software
 

Featured Reviews

MD
Software Engineer III at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Integration capabilities enhance message handling without human interaction
With ActiveMQ there should be more options. If you work with other technologies, for example, Java, there are many options. We can integrate the way we want ActiveMQ. We can create partitions and clusters, but AP is not providing such options currently. It only provides time, request response timing, the number of requests that need to be handled, and protocol types. The configuration needs to be broadened inside AP to perform in a better way. Sometimes issues arise in production with ActiveMQ due to the number of requests. For example, if you have configured one thousand requests at a time and it receives one thousand and one messages at a time, it breaks. The configuration aspect is tricky. When configurations are proper, ActiveMQ almost has zero errors.
Tharun K - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Bahwan CyberTek
Message queues have improved fuel station data flow and now provide faster front-end responses
The best features that CloudAMQP offers include handling server setup, RabbitMQ installations, upgrades, patching, maintenance, scaling, and backup. It is a fully managed RabbitMQ, allowing easy scaling without any downtime. CloudAMQP offers strong monitoring and alerting features that make managing the RabbitMQ environment much easier, providing real-time visibility into the queues, messaging rates, consumers, and memory usage through an easy-to-use dashboard. After using CloudAMQP, our efficiency has increased, and the data which is transferring from the fuel station has become easier and faster to communicate with our front-end application. The data which is queued in RabbitMQ is providing the fastest response to the front-end application.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"There is a vibrant community, and it is one of the strongest points of this product. We always get answers to our problems. So, my experience with the community support has been good."
"ActiveMQ is a good solution; it is low cost, high performance, and scalable."
"Message broadcasting: There could be a use case sending the same message to all consumers. So as a producer, I broadcast the message to a topic. Then, whichever consumers are subscribed to the topic can consume the same message."
"The initial setup and first deployment of ActiveMQ is fairly simple."
"I am impressed with the tool’s latency. Also, the messages in ActiveMQ wait in a queue. The messages will start to move when the system reopens after getting stuck."
"It’s a JMS broker, so the fact that it can allow for asynchronous communication is valuable."
"The main function I find valuable in ActiveMQ is facilitating message transfer within the client's internal network. ActiveMQ handles the message transfer from the internal network to the cloud. Regarding multi-protocols, we use different approaches based on client capabilities. Some clients connect for real-time data transfer, using database queries for periodic updates every ten minutes. We collect data from multiple clients, ensuring we get real-time sensor values where possible and periodic updates for others."
"The initial setup is straightforward and only takes a few minutes."
"Since using CloudAMQP, my organization has seen a very significant return on investment because there is no data loss, and I can recover the system timely."
"After using CloudAMQP, our efficiency has increased, and the data which is transferring from the fuel station has become easier and faster to communicate with our front-end application."
"CloudAMQP has positively impacted my organization as I have built an automation for scaling, which has helped the organization benefit from workload distribution and faster processes."
 

Cons

"From the TPS point of view, it's like 100,000 transactions that need to be admitted from different devices and also from the different minor small systems. Those are best fit for Kafka. We have used it on the customer side, and we thought of giving a try to ActiveMQ, but we have to do a lot of performance tests and approval is required before we can use it for this scale."
"We have had problems with the message selector as when the queue size reaches a certain level, the message selector does not have enough time to run and finish before the JMS reply timeout."
"The included admin web app is not sufficient and we ended up disabling it."
"It does not scale out well. It ends up being very complex if you have a lot of mirror queues."
"There were stability issues. With a network of brokers, you get a lot of issues, especially if you have the publisher and consumer using the same channel or connection, on different topics and/or queues."
"There are some stability issues."
"The tool needs to improve its installation part which is lengthy. The product is already working on that aspect so that the complete installation gets completed within a month."
"Another area of improvement is the monitoring console, which is kind of rudimentary."
"CloudAMQP can be improved in a few ways, such as lowering the pricing at scale and keeping the pricing structure simpler."
"CloudAMQP can be improved as the pricing is a bit high, and if that could be reduced, it would be a great tool."
"CloudAMQP can be improved, as sometimes while upgrading, for instance, if I am running a Big Bunny cluster and want to upgrade to Happy Hour, there is a lag or slowness while upgrading from one queue to another."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are using the open-source version, so we have not looked at any pricing."
"It’s open source, ergo free."
"I think the software is free."
"I use open source with standard Apache licensing."
"The solution is less expensive than its competitors."
"There are no fees because it is open-source."
"The tool's pricing is reasonable and competitive compared to other solutions."
"We use the open-source version."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
24%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
5%
Construction Company
51%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Transportation Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise17
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with ActiveMQ?
Pricing is something to consider with ActiveMQ, though cloud pricing is not costly and depends upon the compute selection. Focusing on AI is essential nowadays. AI capabilities require improvement ...
What is your primary use case for ActiveMQ?
In my current organization, I'm only working with ActiveMQ. I previously worked with IBM WebSphere MQ.
What advice do you have for others considering ActiveMQ?
We have not deployed ActiveMQ's flexible clustering as that requirement is not present for us. We only use active-passive configuration. On a scale of one to ten, I rate ActiveMQ a ten out of ten.
What needs improvement with CloudAMQP?
CloudAMQP can be improved, as sometimes while upgrading, for instance, if I am running a Big Bunny cluster and want to upgrade to Happy Hour, there is a lag or slowness while upgrading from one que...
What is your primary use case for CloudAMQP?
Our main use case for CloudAMQP is that we are using it for RabbitMQ operations as a message broker, with CloudAMQP managing RabbitMQ. Apart from that, we use it for microservice communication. In ...
What advice do you have for others considering CloudAMQP?
My advice for others looking into using CloudAMQP is that if you are choosing any message broker, you can go directly to CloudAMQP. However, before making a choice, at least check their plans accor...
 

Also Known As

AMQ
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Sample Customers

University of Washington, Daugherty Systems, CSC, STG Technologies, Inc. 
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