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Aedes vs Apache RocketMQ

Aedes

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Apache RocketMQ

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Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
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Open source—Yes
Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
Linux—Yes
APIYesYes
Self-hostedYesYes
Plans published12
Spec score · Message Broker Software8.1 (#14)8.9 (#4)
Messaging featuresListed features include message persistence, automatic reconnect, offline buffering, and a backpressure-support API.It supports publish/subscribe, request/reply, streaming, transactional messages, FIFO ordering, message filtering, and push or pull consumption.
SupportFor production bugs or leaks, the maintainers invite pull requests or contact for paid support.The site links to community email groups, GitHub issues, and contribution guidance for help and participation.

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Apache RocketMQ

Apache RocketMQ is distributed middleware for asynchronous communication and publish/subscribe messaging. Its asynchronous model can separate systems and shift loads between upstream and downstream services. Messaging options include publish/subscribe, request/reply, streaming, transactional messages, FIFO ordering, filtering, and push or pull consumption. The project lists durable persistence, replication, failover, fault tolerance, high-availability options, and cross-region disaster recovery. Its site describes million-level LiteTopics per cluster and says RocketMQ has demonstrated 10M+ TPS throughput. It can run locally, in Docker, or Kubernetes, with source and binary packages available. The ecosystem includes EventBridge, MQTT, RocketMQ Connect, RocketMQ Streams, Spring, Flink, Prometheus Exporter, and a Kubernetes Operator; AI options include native MCP support, A2A compatibility, and integrations with LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, AgentScope, Dify, and Coze. The project lists gRPC SDKs for Java, Go, Python, C++, and Rust, plus gRPC, MQTT, JMS, and OpenMessaging protocols. It is free under Apache License 2.0. ACL is not enabled by default.

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