RocketMQ VS Apache Kafka

Compare RocketMQ vs Apache Kafka and see what are their differences.

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RocketMQ Apache Kafka
- 26
4,531 27,335
- 1.5%
1.3 9.9
over 6 years ago 1 day ago
Java Java
- Apache License 2.0
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RocketMQ

Posts with mentions or reviews of RocketMQ. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning RocketMQ yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Apache Kafka

Posts with mentions or reviews of Apache Kafka. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-05.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing RocketMQ and Apache Kafka you can also consider the following projects:

Apache Pulsar - Apache Pulsar - distributed pub-sub messaging system

celery - Distributed Task Queue (development branch)

Apache ActiveMQ - Mirror of Apache ActiveMQ

Apache ActiveMQ Artemis - Mirror of Apache ActiveMQ Artemis

Embedded RabbitMQ - A JVM library to use RabbitMQ as an embedded service

redpanda - Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!

Apache Camel - Apache Camel is an open source integration framework that empowers you to quickly and easily integrate various systems consuming or producing data.

jetstream - JetStream Utilities

Apache RocketMQ - Apache RocketMQ is a cloud native messaging and streaming platform, making it simple to build event-driven applications.

Aeron - Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport

NATS - High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.