Apache RocketMQ vs Hermes

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Apache RocketMQ		Hermes
	Project
3	Mentions	2
20,558	Stars	793
1.2%	Growth	1.4%
9.5	Activity	9.0
4 days ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Apache RocketMQ

Posts with mentions or reviews of Apache RocketMQ. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-29.

Critical Analysis: Unraveling the Apache RocketMQ Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2023-33246)
2 projects | dev.to | 29 Jul 2023
Storage Enhancements for Apache RocketMQ 5.0 in Stream Scenarios
1 project | /r/u_ApacheRocketMQ | 15 Dec 2022

Join the Apache RocketMQ community: https://github.com/apache/rocketmq
Build a Custom DevOps Platform Based on RocketMQ Prometheus Exporter
2 projects | /r/u_ApacheRocketMQ | 6 Dec 2022

RocketMQ is a distributed message and streaming data platform featuring low latency, high performance, high reliability, trillions of capacity, and flexible extensibility. In other words, it consists of a broker server and a client. The client includes a message producer which sends messages to the broker server and a message consumer. Multiple consumers can form a consumer group to subscribe to and pull messages stored on the broker server.

Hermes

Posts with mentions or reviews of Hermes. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-27.

Got fed up with AMQP, so I wrote a HTTP message broker on top of RabbitMQ
8 projects | /r/programming | 27 Mar 2022

Let's draw some parallels in the Kafka ecosystem, in which there are Confluent REST Proxy and Hermes by Allegro. You could say that since Kafka uses a binary protocol over TCP, both of these projects are "moot and useless". Despite that, Allegro aka the Poland's Amazon still maintains that project and uses it in production as a means of HTTP-based communication between their 700+ microservices arguing that it makes their development process easier, since it allows them to abstract away the intricacies of Kafka and use plain HTTP instead.
Tiny message broker written in Go - nothing serious. Born out of COVID-boredom. Would love your suggestions.
10 projects | /r/golang | 23 Dec 2020

well, there is https://github.com/allegro/hermes

What are some alternatives?

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

Apache Kafka - Mirror of Apache Kafka

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

Apache ActiveMQ Artemis - Mirror of Apache ActiveMQ Artemis

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

Nakadi - A distributed event bus that implements a RESTful API abstraction on top of Kafka-like queues

Apache ActiveMQ - Mirror of Apache ActiveMQ

nats-dart - NATS client for Dart lang

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