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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between ActiveMQ 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.
To learn more, read our detailed ActiveMQ vs. VMware RabbitMQ Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Q&A Highlights
Question: What is the biggest difference between ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ?
Answer: RabbitMQ has a larger installed base and more active OSS community.
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Pros
"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.""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.""ActiveMQ brings the most value to small applications because it will not cost you very much to complete.""Reliable message delivery and mirroring.""The initial setup is straightforward and only takes a few minutes.""It’s a JMS broker, so the fact that it can allow for asynchronous communication is valuable.""The most valuable feature of this solution is the holding and forwarding.""For reliable messaging, the most valuable feature of ActiveMQ for us is ensuring prompt message delivery."

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"Simple and straightforward admin portals: Made it easy for users and worked out excellently for our requirements""The most valuable feature is asynchronous calls, which are easy to configure.""Very sophisticated routing control and priority messaging capabilities""The most valuable feature is that it's really customizable.""It is easy to use. The addition of more queues and more services can be managed very easily.""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.""We use VMware RabbitMQ to transfer information from one point to another.""The product's reliability is the most valuable feature."

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Cons
"Message Management: Better management of the messages. Perhaps persist them, or put in another queue with another life cycle.""There are some stability issues.""One potential area would be the complexity of the initial setup.""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 solution can improve the other protocols to equal the AMQ protocol they offer.""It does not scale out well. It ends up being very complex if you have a lot of mirror queues.""Distributed message processing would be a nice addition.""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."

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"The solution needs improvement on performance.""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 availability could be better.""When you have complex tasks, RabbitMQ is hard to use.""VMware RabbitMQ needs to create a new queue system.""The fact that a single queue can't be distributed across multiple instances/nodes is a major disadvantage.""If you're outside IP address range, the clustering no longer has all the features which is problematic.""The product is pretty hard to configure."

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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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  • "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:The ability to store the failed events for some time is valuable.
    Top Answer:Everybody is now moving from ActiveMQ to Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ. Apache Kafka is much higher in terms of scalability and stability; it's way ahead. So, there is room for improvement in terms of… more »
    Top Answer: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… 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, simple to configure and integrates well with our enterprise ecosystem and protocols… more »
    Top Answer:We use VMware RabbitMQ to transfer information from one point to another.
    Top Answer:It is an open-source platform. Although, we have to pay for additional features.
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    Comparisons
    IBM MQ logo
    Compared 33% of the time.
    Anypoint MQ logo
    Compared 19% of the time.
    Red Hat AMQ logo
    Compared 13% of the time.
    Apache Kafka logo
    Compared 8% of the time.
    Amazon SQS logo
    Compared 7% of the time.
    Also Known As
    AMQ
    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

    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. 
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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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    Computer Software Company24%
    Retailer18%
    University12%
    Security Firm6%
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    Financial Services Firm27%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Comms Service Provider7%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise77%
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    Small Business45%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise45%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise71%
    Buyer's Guide
    ActiveMQ vs. VMware RabbitMQ
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about ActiveMQ vs. VMware RabbitMQ and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    ActiveMQ is ranked 3rd in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 23 reviews while VMware RabbitMQ is ranked 5th in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 38 reviews. ActiveMQ is rated 7.8, while VMware RabbitMQ is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of ActiveMQ writes "Allows for asynchronous communication, enabling services to operate independently but issues with stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware RabbitMQ writes "A cloud solution for asynchronous call with easy configuration". ActiveMQ is most compared with IBM MQ, Anypoint MQ, Red Hat AMQ, Apache Kafka and Amazon SQS, whereas VMware RabbitMQ is most compared with IBM MQ, Apache Kafka, Anypoint MQ, Red Hat AMQ and PubSub+ Event Broker. See our ActiveMQ vs. VMware RabbitMQ report.

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