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We performed a comparison between ActiveMQ and Red Hat AMQ 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.
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Pros
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the holding and forwarding.""Reliable message delivery and mirroring.""ActiveMQ brings the most value to small applications because it will not cost you very much to complete.""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'm impressed, I think that Active MQ is great.""Most people or many people recommended using ActiveMQ on small and medium-scale applications.""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.""It’s a JMS broker, so the fact that it can allow for asynchronous communication is valuable."

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"This product is well adopted on the OpenShift platform. For organizations like ours that use OpenShift for many of our products, this is a good feature.""The most valuable feature for us is the operator-based automation that is provided by Streams for infrastructure as well as user and topic management. This saves a lot of time and effort on our part to provide infrastructure. For example, the deployment of infrastructure is reduced from approximately a week to a day.""The solution is very lightweight, easy to configure, simple to manage, and robust since it launched.""Red Hat AMQ's best feature is its reliability.""My impression is that it is average in terms of scalability.""AMQ is highly scalable and performs well. It can process a large volume of messages in one second. AMQ and OpenShift are a good combination.""The most valuable feature is stability."

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Cons
"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.""Needs to focus on a certain facet and be good at it, instead of handling support for most of the available message brokers.""There are some stability issues.""I would rate the stability a five out of ten because sometimes it gets stuck, and we have to restart it. We""It does not scale out well. It ends up being very complex if you have a lot of mirror queues.""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.""The solution's stability needs improvement.""Message Management: Better management of the messages. Perhaps persist them, or put in another queue with another life cycle."

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"Red Hat AMQ's cost could be improved, and it could have better integration.""There are some aspects of the monitoring that could be improved on. There is a tool that is somewhat connected to Kafka called Service Registry. This is a product by Red Hat that I would like to see integrated more tightly.""The turnaround of adopting new versions of underlying technologies sometimes is too slow.""There is improvement needed to keep the support libraries updated.""There are several areas in this solution that need improvement, including clustering multi-nodes and message ordering.""AMQ could be better integrated with Jira and patch management tools.""This product needs better visualization capabilities in general."

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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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  • "There is a subscription needed for this solution and there are support plans available."
  • "This is a very cost-effective solution and the pricing is much better than competitors."
  • "The solution is open-source."
  • "Red Hat AMQ's pricing could be improved."
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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 it could pose challenges for first-time users.
    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 »
    Top Answer:AMQ is highly scalable and performs well. It can process a large volume of messages in one second. AMQ and OpenShift are a good combination.
    Top Answer:AMQ could be better integrated with Jira and patch management tools.
    Top Answer:We use AMQ's event-driven architecture to exchange messages, and I can connect the AMQ Broker through various integrations.
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    Comparisons
    IBM MQ logo
    Compared 33% of the time.
    Anypoint MQ logo
    Compared 19% of the time.
    VMware RabbitMQ logo
    Compared 8% of the time.
    Apache Kafka logo
    Compared 7% of the time.
    Amazon SQS logo
    Compared 7% of the time.
    Apache Kafka logo
    Compared 35% of the time.
    IBM MQ logo
    Compared 17% of the time.
    VMware RabbitMQ logo
    Compared 13% of the time.
    IBM Event Streams logo
    Compared 4% of the time.
    Amazon MQ logo
    Compared 3% of the time.
    Also Known As
    AMQ
    Red Hat JBoss A-MQ, Red Hat JBoss AMQ
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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

    To respond to business demands quickly and efficiently, you need a way to integrate the applications and data spread across your enterprise. Red Hat JBoss A-MQ—based on the Apache ActiveMQ open source project—is a flexible, high-performance messaging platform that delivers information reliably, enabling real-time integration and connecting the Internet of Things (IoT).

    Sample Customers
    University of Washington, Daugherty Systems, CSC, STG Technologies, Inc. 
    E*TRADE, CERN, CenturyLink, AECOM, Sabre Holdings
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm42%
    Transportation Company17%
    Energy/Utilities Company8%
    Computer Software Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm32%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm26%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Government10%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise63%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise77%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise44%
    Large Enterprise22%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise75%
    Buyer's Guide
    ActiveMQ vs. Red Hat AMQ
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about ActiveMQ vs. Red Hat AMQ and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    767,847 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    ActiveMQ is ranked 3rd in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 24 reviews while Red Hat AMQ is ranked 8th in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 7 reviews. ActiveMQ is rated 7.8, while Red Hat AMQ 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 Red Hat AMQ writes "A stable, open-source technology, with a convenient deployment". ActiveMQ is most compared with IBM MQ, Anypoint MQ, VMware RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka and Amazon SQS, whereas Red Hat AMQ is most compared with Apache Kafka, IBM MQ, VMware RabbitMQ, IBM Event Streams and Amazon MQ. See our ActiveMQ vs. Red Hat AMQ report.

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