MQTTnet VS emqx

Compare MQTTnet vs emqx and see what are their differences.

MQTTnet

MQTTnet is a high performance .NET library for MQTT based communication. It provides a MQTT client and a MQTT server (broker). The implementation is based on the documentation from http://mqtt.org/. (by dotnet)
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MQTTnet emqx
13 7
4,200 13,235
2.0% 2.3%
8.0 10.0
4 days ago 1 day ago
C# Erlang
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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MQTTnet

Posts with mentions or reviews of MQTTnet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-10.

emqx

Posts with mentions or reviews of emqx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-02.
  • Simplest Guide to DIY Your Own LLM Toy in 2024
    4 projects | dev.to | 2 Apr 2024
    EMQX (optional): Open-source MQTT broker for IoT, IIoT, and connected vehicles. Used for managing your toys.
  • All right, which one of you did this?
    2 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 14 Apr 2023
    I do know a real world use for Erlang (it also surprised me when i investigated about it), but two of the biggest mqtt brokers are coded in erlang: emqx, vernemq
  • Comparing MQTT Brokers for the Industrial IoT
    1 project | /r/MQTT | 6 Mar 2023
    EMQX is a 10-year-old open-source project under Apache License 2.0, with 11k stars on GitHub(https://github.com/emqx/emqx), 20M downloads on DockerHub (https://hub.docker.com/r/emqx/emqx), and 400+ paid customers worldwide. The Sweden address you mentioned is only the registered address of our Sweden entity. We’re a globally distributed team. EMQX European R&D team members work remotely in Sweden, Germany, the UK, and Brazil. We have similar registered addresses for entities in Germany and the USA too. See my response in linkedin for the address doxing.
  • We launched a serverless MQTT service with 1M free session minutes each month
    1 project | /r/MQTT | 20 Feb 2023
    Hello, we’ve met situations where messages are accumulated in EMQX due to slow user consumption, and then EMQX will be killed by the operating system as it takes up too much memory. It is usually caused by improper configuration. However, we are unclear about what kind of situations you met. Could you please raise an issue in our GitHub community at: https://github.com/emqx/emqx/issues? Our experts will try to offer help asap.
  • Reaching 100M MQTT Connections with EMQX 5.0
    7 projects | dev.to | 8 Jul 2022
    EMQX is an open-source, highly scalable, and distributed MQTT messaging broker written in Erlang/OTP that can support millions of concurrent clients. As such, there is a need to persist and replicate various data among the cluster nodes. For example: MQTT topics and their subscribers, routing information, ACL rules, various configurations, and many more. Since its beginning, EMQX has used Mnesia as the database backend for such needs.
  • EMQX 5.0 Released: 100M+ IoT Connections Per Cluster
    2 projects | dev.to | 6 Jul 2022
  • EMQX made in China?
    1 project | /r/emqx | 17 Mar 2022
    EMQX(https://github.com/emqx/emqx) is an open-source project under Apache License 2.0, we don't think there are national borders for open source. The nature of its being open-source means it is developed, tested, and used by the open-source community worldwide. For a popular open-source project that has been downloaded by 15M times and adopted so widely globally for many years, it’s impossible to have a backdoor hidden without being discovered.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MQTTnet and emqx you can also consider the following projects:

SparkplugNet - SparkplugNet is a library to use the Sparkplug industrial IoT (IIoT) standard in .Net. It uses MQTTnet in the background.

hivemq-community-edition - HiveMQ CE is a Java-based open source MQTT broker that fully supports MQTT 3.x and MQTT 5. It is the foundation of the HiveMQ Enterprise Connectivity and Messaging Platform

Mqtt2Mqtt - Customize MQTT messages between two brokers

vernemq - A distributed MQTT message broker based on Erlang/OTP. Built for high quality & Industrial use cases. The VerneMQ mission is active & the project maintained. Thank you for your support!

SignalR-Client-Cpp - C++ Client for ASP.NET Core SignalR

Aedes - Barebone MQTT broker that can run on any stream server, the node way

SignalR-Client-Cpp - C++ client for ASP.NET SignalR 2.x

lorawan-server - Compact server for private LoRaWAN networks

mainflux - Industrial IoT Messaging and Device Management Platform

serilog-sinks-console - Write log events to System.Console as text or JSON, with ANSI theme support

emqtt-bench - Lightweight MQTT benchmark tool written in Erlang