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We performed a comparison between ActiveMQ, Aurea CX Messenger, and VMware RabbitMQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"ActiveMQ is very lightweight and quick.""I appreciate many features including queue, topic, durable topic, and selectors. I also value a different support for different protocols such as MQTT and AMQP. It has full support for EIP, REST, Message Groups, UDP, and TCP.""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.""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.""Most people or many people recommended using ActiveMQ on small and medium-scale applications.""The most important feature is that it's best for JVM-related languages and JMS integration.""It provides the best support services.""For reliable messaging, the most valuable feature of ActiveMQ for us is ensuring prompt message delivery."

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"The solution is highly scalable, this is very important for us. It can handle a lot of messages.""ESB: Provides all kind of possibilities to resolve business needs. A lot of ready to use services plus custom Java services. I used a lot of them all.""SDM: User-friendly tool which allows for a seamless approach to performing hotfixes, if required.""The features that I have found most valuable are that it is very easy to develop. Most of it is graphical, but we also have the option to add any custom call that you need.""The solution offers excellent stability.""The Messenger Broker is a really good feature."

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"The message routing is the most valuable feature. It is effective and flexible.""The security is great.""The solution can scale.""After creating a RabbitMQ service, they provide you with a sort of web management dashboard.""The solution has really cool features to use. Its management console is excellent. You can utilize plugins to view the performance of the whole service on one network.""The most valuable feature is that it's really customizable.""The product's feature of data transaction works fast.""I like the high throughput of 20K messages/sec, and that it supports multiple protocols."

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Cons
"I would like the tool to improve compliance and stability. We will encounter issues while using the central applications. In the solution's future releases, I want to control and set limitations for databases.""The solution can improve the other protocols to equal the AMQ protocol they offer.""The solution's stability needs improvement.""It would be great if it is included as part of the solution, as Kafka is doing. Even though the use case of Kafka is different, If something like data extraction is possible, or if we can experiment with partition tolerance and other such things, that will be great.""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.""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.""There are some stability issues.""It does not scale out well. It ends up being very complex if you have a lot of mirror queues."

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"I don't know if the last version has the cloud option, but maybe that could be good. That could be something that is included.""It should include/add more services with the product as per market demand. It should include custom Java services developed by any organization or provide a platform where users/developers can share ideas/custom services, etc.""You should not hurry with upgrades without testing the whole product completely.""Aurea CX Messenger could improve by making better use of the new APIs""The improvement is that it should be on the cloud and use web services.""The solution needs to improve support for new, more recent protocols on the API."

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"The fact that a single queue can't be distributed across multiple instances/nodes is a major disadvantage.""The debugging capabilities and testing flexibilities need to be improved.""The availability could be better.""The solution needs improvement on performance.""If you're outside IP address range, the clustering no longer has all the features which is problematic.""The next release should include some of the flexibility and features that Kafka offers.""They should improve on the ability to scale your queues in a very simple and elegant way with the same power that they have would be great.""VMware RabbitMQ's configuration process could be easier to understand."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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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  • "Much better than Oracle SOA Suite."
  • "You pay nothing for licensing, because the commercial model is a subscription. Other environments, such as QA and Development, are included in the subscription"
  • "The pricing is not so high."
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  • "The pricing is okay."
  • "This is an open source solution."
  • "are using the open-source version, which can be used free of cost."
  • "The pricing for RabbitMQ is reasonable. It is worth the cost."
  • "The solution's pricing is cost-effective as it does not involve significant expenses. Licensing is required only for the server, while clients do not need any licensing. Therefore, it proves to be a cost-efficient option."
  • "It is an open-source platform. Although, we have to pay for additional features."
  • "It is an open-source product."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:For reliable messaging, the most valuable feature of ActiveMQ for us is ensuring prompt message delivery.
    Top Answer:In terms of improvement, one potential area would be the complexity of the initial setup. It is not overly complex, but… more »
    Top Answer:We use ActiveMQ for message brokering in our architecture. It is a central hub where we publish codes like city codes… more »
    Top Answer:The Messenger Broker is a really good feature.
    Top Answer:The pricing is not so high. I will rate it a seven out of ten, where one is the lowest and ten is the highest. There are… more »
    Top Answer:The improvement is that it should be on the cloud and use web services because the earlier version is not using web… more »
    Top Answer:IBM MQ has a great reputation behind it, and this solution is very robust with great stability. It is easy to use… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature is asynchronous calls, which are easy to configure.
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    Also Known As
    AMQ
    CX Messenger Enterprise, Aurea Sonic ESB, Aurea Sonic, Aurea Sonic MQ
    RabbitMQ by Pivotal, Rabbit, RabbitMQ
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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

    CX Messenger lets your technology keep pace with your business. Aurea’s industry leading Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) lets you adapt and change your infrastructure with plug-and-play speed and ease.

    RabbitMQ is the most popular open source message broker, with more than 35,000 production deployments world-wide. RabbitMQ is lightweight and easy to deploy on premises and in the cloud and runs on all major operating systems. It supports most developer platforms, multiple messaging protocols and can be deployed in distributed and federated configurations to meet high-scale, high-availability requirements.

    Sample Customers
    University of Washington, Daugherty Systems, CSC, STG Technologies, Inc. 
    Heathrow, HomeServe, Paypal, Freedom Mortgage
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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%
    Government6%
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    Financial Services Firm17%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Insurance Company6%
    Government5%
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    Computer Software Company22%
    Retailer17%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    University11%
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    Financial Services Firm27%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise77%
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    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise46%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise71%
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