ActiveMQ Reviews

Name: ActiveMQ
Brand: Apache
Rating: 4 (25 reviews)

Vendor: Apache

3.9 out of 5

25 reviews
88% willing to recommend

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What is ActiveMQ?

Apache ActiveMQ is the most popular and powerful open source messaging and Integration Patterns server.

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ActiveMQ is the #2 ranked solution in top Message Queue Software. PeerSpot users give ActiveMQ an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. ActiveMQ is most commonly compared to MuleSoft Anypoint Platform: ActiveMQ vs MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. ActiveMQ is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 77% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 33% of all views.

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Prashant-Sharma

Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We used it for communication between microservices. For example, if service one makes an update and service two needs to be aware of it, and it doesn't need to be synchronous, it can handle that later as well. The feature of ActiveMQ which I feel is good is its ability to have DLP, the later…

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Jodi Setiyawan

Lead Data Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

The stability of ActiveMQ could be improved. Occasionally, the MQTT broker goes down, requiring a restart, so enhancing its stability would be beneficial. Also, the current monitoring tools could be more user-friendly and faster. I'm currently using the default ActiveMQ monitoring tool, which is quite basic. It would be great if it could provide more detailed insights into the queues, topics, broker status, publisher status, and consumer status. For additional functionality, I suggest making it easier to install and monitor the queues, topics, broker status, publisher status, and consumer status. Improved monitoring tools would help avoid needing to manually access the server for monitoring purposes.

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RahulSingh7

Senior Software Developer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

ActiveMQ brings the most value to small applications because it will not cost you very much to complete There are two areas that the product should improve. One, the solution needs to be maintained manually and two, there are some stability issues. We have been using ActiveMQ for quite a while.…

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ActiveMQ mindshare

As of September 2024, the mindshare of ActiveMQ in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category stands at 28.1%, up from 22.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated Jul 30, 2024

Valuable Features

"The main function I find valuable in ActiveMQ is facilitating message transfer within the client's internal network. ActiveMQ handles the message transfer from the internal network to the cloud. Regarding multi-protocols, we use different approaches based on client capabilities. Some clients connect for real-time data transfer, using database queries for periodic updates every ten minutes. We collect data from multiple clients, ensuring we get real-time sensor values where possible and periodic updates for others."
"There is a vibrant community, and it is one of the strongest points of this product. We always get answers to our problems. So, my experience with the community support has been good."
"For reliable messaging, the most valuable feature of ActiveMQ for us is ensuring prompt message delivery."

Room for Improvement

"For additional functionality, I suggest making it easier to install and monitor the queues, topics, broker status, publisher status, and consumer status. Improved monitoring tools would help avoid needing to manually access the server for monitoring purposes."
"The UI. It's both a good thing and a bad thing. The UI is too simple. Sometimes you wanna see the messages coming to the queue, and you have to refresh the dashboard, the console of the product."
"One potential area would be the complexity of the initial setup."

Pricing

"The solution is less expensive than its competitors."
"The tool's pricing is reasonable and competitive compared to other solutions."
"ActiveMQ is open source, so it is free to use."

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Computer Software Company

12%

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Learn more about ActiveMQ

Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols, comes with easy to use Enterprise Integration Patterns and many advanced features while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4. Apache ActiveMQ is released under the Apache 2.0 License

ActiveMQ was previously known as AMQ.