We'd be interested to hear any experiences with the pros and cons of ActiveMQ vs RabbitMQ vs ZeroMQ. Information about any other interesting message queues is also welcome.
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More information than you would want to know:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Message_Queue_Evaluation_Notes
UPDATE
Just elaborating what Paul added in comment. The page mentioned above is dead after 2010, so read with a pinch of salt. Lot of stuff has been been changed in 3 years.
It really depends on your use-case.
Comparing 0MQ with ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ is not fair. ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ are Messaging Systems wich require installation and administration. They offer featurewise a lot more than ZeroMQ. They have real persistent Queues, Support for transactions etc.
ZeroMQ is a lightweight message orientated socket implementation. It is also suitable for in-process asynchronous programming. It is possible to run a "Enterprise Messaging System" over ZeroMQ, but you would have to implement a lot on your own.
So:
ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Websphere MQ & MSMQ are "Enterprise Message Queues"
ZeroMQ is a message orientated IPC Library.
There is some discussion in the comments of this blog post, about Twitter writing their own message queue, which may be interesting.
Steve did extensive load and stress testing of ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, etc. ActiveMQ is actually quite slow (much slower than Kestrel), RabbitMQ consistently crashes with too many producers and too few consumers.
You probably won't have Twitter-like load initially however :)
Abie, it all comes down to your use case. Rather than relying on someone else's account of their use case, feel free to post your use case to the rabbitmq-discuss list. Asking on twitter will get you some responses too. Best wishes, alexis
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