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ActiveMQ vs Google Cloud Pub/Sub

No leader: the top candidate ActiveMQ has only 0.29 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

ActiveMQ full profile →Google Cloud Pub/Sub full profile →
Machine formatsMarkdownJSONGraphQLMarkdown is open. JSON and GraphQL need a free key.
ActiveMQ59
Google Cloud Pub/Sub54
Score
vioscaleAI score
ActiveMQ59 / 100low · 29%
Google Cloud Pub/Sub54 / 100medium · 50%
Pricing
Free tier
ActiveMQ✓
Google Cloud Pub/Sub✓
Model
ActiveMQopen_source
Google Cloud Pub/Subfreemium
Price level
ActiveMQfree
Google Cloud Pub/Sublow
Transparent
ActiveMQ✓
Google Cloud Pub/Sub✗
Integrations
Count
ActiveMQ–
Google Cloud Pub/Sub9
Security
Scorecard
ActiveMQ7
Google Cloud Pub/Sub–
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
ActiveMQ–
Google Cloud Pub/Sub✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
ActiveMQ7,528
Google Cloud Pub/Sub–
Github stars
ActiveMQ2,465
Google Cloud Pub/Sub–
Activity
Commits last 30d
ActiveMQ33
Google Cloud Pub/Sub–
Release
Cadence days
ActiveMQ4
Google Cloud Pub/Sub–
History
ActiveMQ20 items
Google Cloud Pub/Sub–
License
Spdx
ActiveMQApache-2.0
Google Cloud Pub/Sub–
Language
Primary
ActiveMQJava
Google Cloud Pub/Sub–
Market
Availability
ActiveMQ–
Google Cloud Pub/SubAvailable worldwide · Popular in US
Content
Faq
ActiveMQ5 items
Google Cloud Pub/Sub6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for message queues. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Messaging paradigm
ActiveMQPub/sub
Google Cloud Pub/SubPub/sub
Correctness
Delivery guarantee
ActiveMQ-
Google Cloud Pub/SubAt-least-once
Ordering guarantee
ActiveMQ-
Google Cloud Pub/SubPer-key
Durability
Durable replayable log
ActiveMQ✓
Google Cloud Pub/Sub✓
Message replay / rewind
ActiveMQ-
Google Cloud Pub/Sub✓
Interop
Wire protocol
ActiveMQAMQP, STOMP, MQTT, JMS
Google Cloud Pub/Sub-
Kafka-protocol compatible
ActiveMQ-
Google Cloud Pub/Sub-
Scale
Partitioned horizontal scaling
ActiveMQ✓
Google Cloud Pub/Sub✓
Geo / cross-region replication
ActiveMQ-
Google Cloud Pub/Sub✓
Consumption
Consumer groups / competing consumers
ActiveMQ✓
Google Cloud Pub/Sub✓
Dead-letter queue
ActiveMQ-
Google Cloud Pub/Sub-
Deployment
Managed cloud offering exists
ActiveMQ✓
Google Cloud Pub/Sub✓
Hosting
ActiveMQCloud + self-hosted
Google Cloud Pub/SubCloud only
Processing
Built-in stream processing
ActiveMQ✓
Google Cloud Pub/Sub✓

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

ActiveMQ

An open source Java-based system for asynchronous messaging between applications across different platforms. It supports multiple standard communication protocols and offers high availability features through message load-balancing and master-broker configurations.

Independently observed

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

Google Cloud's publish-subscribe messaging platform that delivers events to multiple subscribers with at-least-once delivery guarantees, cross-zone replication, and optional per-key ordering. It integrates with popular data processing, analytics, and monitoring tools for end-to-end data streaming solutions.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

ActiveMQ

Open sourceFree tier

Open source and free to download and use. Professional support available from commercial vendors.

as of verify ↗

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

from $0.27/moUsage-basedFree tier

Usage-based: $40/TiB throughput, $0.27/GiB-month storage. Free tier: 10 GiB/month throughput.

  • Standard Pub/Sub$40/TiB throughput + $0.27/GiB-month storage (first 10 GiB throughput free)
    • At-least-once message delivery
    • Per-key message ordering
    • Pull and push delivery modes
    • Cross-zone replication
    • Automatic scaling and provisioning
    • +1 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
ActiveMQ✓
Google Cloud Pub/Sub✓
Windows
ActiveMQ✓
Google Cloud Pub/Sub✗
Linux
ActiveMQ✓
Google Cloud Pub/Sub✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
ActiveMQ✗
Google Cloud Pub/Sub✓
Self-hosted
ActiveMQ✓
Google Cloud Pub/Sub✗
Hybrid
ActiveMQ✗
Google Cloud Pub/Sub✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

ActiveMQ

Not documented yet.

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

12 total
  • BigQuery
  • Cloud Storage
  • Dataflow
  • Splunk
  • Datadog
  • Striim
  • Informatica
  • Confluent Cloud
  • Apache Kafka
  • Knative Eventing
  • Looker Studio
  • Data Studio
Independently observed
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