We performed a comparison between Apache Kafka and VMware RabbitMQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Message Queue (MQ) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like the performance and reliability of Kafka. I needed a data streaming buffer that could handle thousands of messages per second with at least one processing point for an analytics pipeline. Kafka fits this requirement very well."
"Apache Kafka is scalable. It is easy to add brokers."
"The most valuable feature is the documentation, which is good and clear."
"It is easy to configure."
"The most valuable feature is that it can handle high volume."
"Kafka provides us with a way to store the data used for analytics. That's the big selling point. There's very good log management."
"When comparing it with other messaging and integration platforms, this is one of the best rated."
"Its availability is brilliant."
"I like the high throughput of 20K messages/sec, and that it supports multiple protocols."
"The product's reliability is the most valuable feature."
"It can be configured to be a very fast message broker. I like the stability, the built-in admin tools and plugin architecture."
"The security is great."
"Some of the most valuable features are publish and subscribe, fanout, and queues."
"The solution's best feature is its exceptional speed, delivering efficient utilization of resources."
"The solution can scale."
"The most valuable feature is that it's really customizable."
"The GUI tools for monitoring and support are still very basic and not very rich. There is no help in determining a shard key for performance."
"It's not possible to substitute IBM MQ with Apache Kafka because the JMS part is not very stable."
"Kafka is a nightmare to administer."
"If the graphical user interface was easier for the Kafka administration it would be much better. Right now, you need to use the program with the command-line interface. If the graphical user interface was easier, it could be a better product."
"The solution should be easier to manage. It needs to improve its visualization feature in the next release."
"Kafka requires non-trivial expertise with DevOps to deploy in production at scale. The organization needs to understand ZooKeeper and Kafka and should consider using additional tools, such as MirrorMaker, so that the organization can survive an availability zone or a region going down."
"Lacks elasticity and the ability to scale down."
"The solution can improve its cloud support."
"The debugging capabilities and testing flexibilities need to be improved."
"The product has to improve the crisis management, especially in memory issues."
"The availability could be better."
"I’d like this dashboard to use web sockets, so it would actually be in real time. It would slightly increase debugging, etc."
"Their implementation is quite tricky. It's not that easy to implement RabbitMQ as a cluster."
"RabbitMQ is clearly better supported on Linux than it is on Windows. There are idiosyncrasies in the Windows version that are not there on Linux."
"The product is pretty hard to configure."
"The support feature could benefit from some improvement in terms of accessibility and responsiveness."
Apache Kafka is ranked 1st in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 76 reviews while VMware RabbitMQ is ranked 5th in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 39 reviews. Apache Kafka is rated 8.0, while VMware RabbitMQ is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Apache Kafka writes "Great access to multiple devices, with stability, at an affordable price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware RabbitMQ writes "A cloud solution for asynchronous call with easy configuration". Apache Kafka is most compared with IBM MQ, Amazon SQS, Red Hat AMQ, Anypoint MQ and ActiveMQ, whereas VMware RabbitMQ is most compared with IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, Anypoint MQ, Red Hat AMQ and PubSub+ Event Broker. See our Apache Kafka vs. VMware RabbitMQ report.
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