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ActiveMQ

Read 24 ActiveMQ reviews
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EMQX

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George Thomas
High performance, good message toll replication, and the ability to raise network processes
We do not use this product extensively. It is primarily used as part of our application deployment and message structuring. We haven't used the... Read more →
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  • "I use open source with standard Apache licensing."
  • "It’s open source, ergo free."
  • "I think the software is free."
  • "We are using the open-source version, so we have not looked at any pricing."
  • "There are no fees because it is open-source."
  • "We use the open-source version."
  • "ActiveMQ is open source, so it is free to use."
  • "The tool's pricing is reasonable and competitive compared to other solutions."

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    What do you like most about ActiveMQ?
    Top Answer:For reliable messaging, the most valuable feature of ActiveMQ for us is ensuring prompt message delivery.
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    What needs improvement with ActiveMQ?
    Top Answer:In terms of improvement, one potential area would be the complexity of the initial setup. It is not overly complex, but it could pose challenges for first-time users.
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    What is your primary use case for ActiveMQ?
    Top Answer:We use ActiveMQ for message brokering in our architecture. It is a central hub where we publish codes like city codes and office IDs for our server application. Other applications subscribe to… more »
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    Ranking
    3rd
    out of 21 in Message Queue (MQ) Software
    Views
    12,217
    Comparisons
    6,891
    Reviews
    9
    Average Words per Review
    385
    Rating
    7.6
    14th
    out of 21 in Message Queue (MQ) Software
    Views
    432
    Comparisons
    356
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    Comparisons
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    Compared 19% of the time.
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    Red Hat AMQ vs. ActiveMQ
    Compared 13% of the time.
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    VMware RabbitMQ vs. ActiveMQ
    Compared 8% of the time.
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    Compared 54% of the time.
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    Compared 19% of the time.
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    Apache Kafka vs. EMQX
    Compared 5% of the time.
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    Compared 3% of the time.
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    Overview

    Apache ActiveMQ is the most popular and powerful open source messaging and Integration Patterns server.

    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

    EMQ is an innovative open-source software provider with strong roots in IoT data infrastructure, delivering the world’s leading cloud-native MQTT messaging, streaming database, and edge computing solutions. We power the organizations with future-proof IoT solutions and digital transformation through unified "Connect, Move, Process, and Analyze" IoT data in business-critical scenarios for the IoT era.

    Since 2017 EMQ has been developing a high-performance and massively scalable distributed MQTT messaging server – EMQX to accelerate the connectivity and integration of a wide spectrum of IoT applications and data across multiple platforms.

    So far, EMQX has been adopted by more than 20,000 global users from over 50 countries, connecting more than 100 million IoT devices worldwide.

    EMQ’s robust and flexible edge-to-cloud IoT data solutions encompass a suite of technologies designed for IoT applications: reliability, security, availability, scalability, latency & throughput. This enables successful enterprise-grade IoT deployments with ease and scale.Your IoT data can be flexibly integrated into enterprise systems and pre-built extensions for quick integration to other enterprise systems such as Kafka, Confluent, MongoDB Atlas and Oracle, etc.

    Website: www.emqx.io

    Sample Customers
    University of Washington, Daugherty Systems, CSC, STG Technologies, Inc. 
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    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm42%
    Transportation Company17%
    Energy/Utilities Company8%
    Computer Software Company8%
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    Financial Services Firm32%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government7%
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    Computer Software Company28%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Retailer5%
    Company Size
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise63%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise77%
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise59%
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    ActiveMQ is ranked 3rd in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 24 reviews while EMQX is ranked 14th in Message Queue (MQ) Software. ActiveMQ is rated 7.8, while EMQX is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of ActiveMQ writes "Allows for asynchronous communication, enabling services to operate independently but issues with stability". On the other hand, ActiveMQ is most compared with IBM MQ, Anypoint MQ, Red Hat AMQ, VMware RabbitMQ and Oracle Event Hub Cloud Service, whereas EMQX is most compared with AWS IoT Core, VMware RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka and Amazon MQ.

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