NSQ vs RabbitMQ
NSQ
nsq.io
RabbitMQ
rabbitmq.comSide by side
| Figure | NSQ | RabbitMQ |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 4 |
| Spec score · Message Queue (MQ) Software | 7.5 (#20) | 8.5 (#6) |
| Spec score · Message Broker Software | 7.4 (#30) | 8.4 (#8) |
| Deployment | The project offers prebuilt binaries for Linux, Darwin, FreeBSD, and Windows, plus an official Docker image. | RabbitMQ can run on cloud infrastructure, on-premises, local machines, physical or virtual hardware, containers and IaaS providers. |
| Integrations | NSQ can send real-time instrumentation to statsd; nsqadmin can use Graphite for charts when statsd is enabled. | RabbitMQ provides client libraries for Java, .NET/C#, Erlang, and other languages, and offers a community Docker image and Kubernetes operators. |
| Routing | NSQ supports multicast delivery from topics to channels and distributes each channel’s messages among its consumers. | Publishers can route messages to one or many consumers using exchanges, routing keys, filtering and topic-based authorization. |
| What it does | NSQ is a real-time distributed messaging platform. | RabbitMQ is an enterprise-grade messaging and streaming broker for communication among applications, microservices and IoT systems. |
Plans
RabbitMQ
- Open-source RabbitMQFree
- Open Source RabbitMQ ServerFree
- Tanzu RabbitMQPriced on request
- VMware Tanzu RabbitMQPriced on request
In their own words
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ is an open source messaging and streaming broker for application communication, including distributed microservices, real-time data, and IoT. Publishers can route messages to one or more consumers using routing, filtering, streaming, and federation. Message acknowledgements and replication across a cluster support delivery reliability, and delivery guarantees are configurable. Supported protocols include AMQP 0-9-1, AMQP 1.0, MQTT, STOMP, RabbitMQ Streams, HTTP, and WebSocket, including browser communication over WebSocket. Client libraries are available for Java, .NET/C#, Erlang, and other languages; the project also offers a community Docker image and Kubernetes operators. RabbitMQ can run in cloud or on-premises environments, on local machines and physical or virtual hardware, and in containers. Linux, Windows, and macOS are supported; z/OS, most mainframes, and systems with less than 100 MB of RAM are not. The free, self-managed Open Source RabbitMQ Server is offered under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 with best-effort community support. VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ is a commercial offering with 24/7 support and enterprise features; pricing is by contact.