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."Kafka can process messages in real-time, making it useful for applications that require near-instantaneous processing."
"It is easy to configure."
"The high availability is valuable. It is robust, and we can rely on it for a huge amount of data."
"As a software developer, I have found Apache Kafka's support to be the most valuable...The solution is easy to integrate with any of our systems."
"It's an open-source product, which means it doesn't cost us anything to use it."
"Apache Kafka's most valuable features include clustering and sharding...It is a pretty stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Apache Kafka is Kafka Connect."
"The connectors provided by the solution are valuable."
"Some of the most valuable features are publish and subscribe, fanout, and queues."
"Simple and straightforward admin portals: Made it easy for users and worked out excellently for our requirements"
"The message routing is the most valuable feature. It is effective and flexible."
"It can be configured to be a very fast message broker. I like the stability, the built-in admin tools and plugin architecture."
"The product's feature of data transaction works fast."
"The solution's best feature is its exceptional speed, delivering efficient utilization of resources."
"We have been able to set up a messaging system that facilitates data integration between the software modules that we sell."
"The solution can scale."
"The price for the enterprise version is quite high. It would be better to have a lower price."
"In the next release, I would like for there to be some authorization and HTL security."
"Pulsar gives more scalability to an even grouping, but Apache Kafka is used more if you want to send something in a time series-based. If this does not matter to you then Pulsar could be more customizable. Apache Kafka is nothing but a streaming system with local storage."
"Kafka's interface could also use some work. Some of our products are in C, and we don't have any libraries to use with C. From an interface perspective, we had a library from the readies. And we are streaming some of the products we built to readies. That is one of the requirements. It would be good to have those libraries available in a future release for our C++ clients or public libraries, so we can include them in our product and build on that."
"More Windows support, I believe, is one area where it can improve."
"Apache Kafka can improve by adding a feature out of the box which allows it to deliver only one message."
"Kafka is complex and there is a little bit of a learning curve."
"Managing Apache Kafka can be a challenge, but there are solutions. I used the newest release, as it seems they have removed Zookeeper, which should make it easier. Confluent provides a fully managed Kafka platform, in which the cluster does not need to be managed."
"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."
"The solution needs improvement on performance."
"We needed to configure additional plugins. While it was relatively easy to do this on-premises, it became more challenging in the cloud."
"VMware RabbitMQ's configuration process could be easier to understand."
"The product has to improve the crisis management, especially in memory issues."
"VMware RabbitMQ needs to create a new queue system."
"The availability could be better."
"The next release should include some of the flexibility and features that Kafka offers."
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 38 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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