ActiveMQ Reviews

Name: ActiveMQ
Brand: Apache
Rating: 4 (24 reviews)

Vendor: Apache

3.9 out of 5

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

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ActiveMQ is the #3 ranked solution in top Message Queue Software. PeerSpot users give ActiveMQ an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. ActiveMQ is most commonly compared to Apache Kafka: ActiveMQ vs Apache Kafka. ActiveMQ is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 76% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 32% of all views.

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Prashant-Sharma

Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Aug 30, 2023

We used it for communication between microservices. For example, if service one makes an update and service two needs to be aware of it, and it doesn't need to be synchronous, it can handle that later as well. The feature of ActiveMQ which I feel is good is its ability to have DLP, the later…

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RahulSingh7

Senior Software Developer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 1, 2022

ActiveMQ brings the most value to small applications because it will not cost you very much to complete There are two areas that the product should improve. One, the solution needs to be maintained manually and two, there are some stability issues. We have been using ActiveMQ for quite a while.…

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Andrea Castorino

Program Manager at SirfinPA

Feb 28, 2024

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 relevant topics on ActiveMQ to receive and consume these messages, ensuring they stay updated with the…

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ActiveMQ market share

As of April 2024, the market share of ActiveMQ in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category stands at 20.5%, up from 13.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"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."
"For reliable messaging, the most valuable feature of ActiveMQ for us is ensuring prompt message delivery."
"The ability to store the failed events for some time is valuable."

Room for Improvement

"The UI. It's both a good thing and a bad thing. The UI is too simple. Sometimes you wanna see the messages coming to the queue, and you have to refresh the dashboard, the console of the product."
"One potential area would be the complexity of the initial setup."
"I would rate the stability a five out of ten because sometimes it gets stuck, and we have to restart it. We"

Pricing

"The solution is less expensive than its competitors."
"The tool's pricing is reasonable and competitive compared to other solutions."
"ActiveMQ is open source, so it is free to use."

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Financial Services Firm

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Computer Software Company

12%

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Learn more about 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

ActiveMQ was previously known as AMQ.