nsq VS Apache Kafka

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

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nsq Apache Kafka
14 26
24,561 27,335
0.6% 1.3%
6.3 9.9
1 day ago about 10 hours ago
Go Java
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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nsq

Posts with mentions or reviews of nsq. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-14.

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 nsq and Apache Kafka you can also consider the following projects:

NATS - Golang client for NATS, the cloud native messaging system.

celery - Distributed Task Queue (development branch)

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

Apache ActiveMQ Artemis - Mirror of Apache ActiveMQ Artemis

RabbitMQ - Open source RabbitMQ: core server and tier 1 (built-in) plugins

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

ZeroMQ - ZeroMQ core engine in C++, implements ZMTP/3.1

jetstream - JetStream Utilities

etcd - Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

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

consul - Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.