Comparison

ActiveMQ vs ZeroMQ

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.

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ActiveMQ59
ZeroMQ49
Score
vioscaleAI score
ActiveMQ59 / 100low · 29%
ZeroMQ49 / 100medium · 58%
Pricing
Free tier
ActiveMQ✓
ZeroMQ✓
Model
Price level
ActiveMQfree
ZeroMQfree
Transparent
ActiveMQ✓
ZeroMQ✓
Integrations
Count
ActiveMQ–
ZeroMQ11
Adoption
Dependent repos
ActiveMQ7,528
ZeroMQ2,003
Github stars
ActiveMQ2,465
ZeroMQ11,016
Package downloads weekly
ActiveMQ–
Activity
Commits last 30d
ActiveMQ33
ZeroMQ0
Release
Cadence days
ActiveMQ4
ZeroMQ114
History
ActiveMQ20 items
ZeroMQ13 items
License
Spdx
ActiveMQApache-2.0
ZeroMQMPL-2.0
Language
Primary
ActiveMQJava
ZeroMQC++
Content
Faq
ActiveMQ5 items
ZeroMQ6 items

Capabilities

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

Core
Messaging paradigm
ActiveMQPub/sub
ZeroMQPub/sub
Correctness
Delivery guarantee
ActiveMQ-
ZeroMQ-
Ordering guarantee
ActiveMQ-
ZeroMQ-
Durability
Durable replayable log
ActiveMQ✓
ZeroMQ-
Message replay / rewind
ActiveMQ-
ZeroMQ-
Interop
Wire protocol
ActiveMQAMQP, STOMP, MQTT, JMS
ZeroMQZMTP/3.1
Kafka-protocol compatible
ActiveMQ-
ZeroMQ-
Scale
Partitioned horizontal scaling
ActiveMQ✓
ZeroMQ✓
Geo / cross-region replication
ActiveMQ-
ZeroMQ-
Consumption
Consumer groups / competing consumers
ActiveMQ✓
ZeroMQ-
Dead-letter queue
ActiveMQ-
ZeroMQ-
Deployment
Managed cloud offering exists
ActiveMQ✓
ZeroMQ✗
Hosting
ActiveMQCloud + self-hosted
ZeroMQSelf-hosted only
Processing
Built-in stream processing
ActiveMQ✓
ZeroMQ-

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

ZeroMQ

Enables programs to exchange information through sockets across multiple protocols and network types, with built-in support for various communication patterns such as broadcast, queue-based delivery, and request-response architectures

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 ↗

ZeroMQ

Open source
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
ActiveMQ✓
ZeroMQ✗
Android
ActiveMQ✗
ZeroMQ✓
Windows
ActiveMQ✓
ZeroMQ✓
Linux
ActiveMQ✓
ZeroMQ✓
Deployment
Self-hosted
ActiveMQ✓
ZeroMQ✓

Integrations

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

ActiveMQ

Not documented yet.

ZeroMQ

11 total
  • Microsoft
  • Samsung
  • AT&T
  • Spotify
  • Facebook
  • Digital Ocean
  • Auth0
  • Bitcoin
  • Jupyter
  • Mongrel2
  • Jina
Independently observed
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ActiveMQ or ZeroMQ: which one depends on you

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