ActiveMQ Reviews, Competitors and Pricing

it_user660042

Manager, Site Reliability Engineering at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 11, 2017

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Provides message delivery and mirroring. It does not scale out well.

Pros and Cons

"Reliable message delivery and mirroring."

"It does not scale out well. It ends up being very complex if you have a lot of mirror queues."

What is most valuable?

Reliable message delivery and mirroring.

What needs improvement?

It does not scale out well. It ends up being very complex if you have a lot of mirror queues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We did have scalability issues. It does not scale out well.

How are customer service and support?

As with a lot of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software), it is what you pay for.

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Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

This is our first foray into the world of messages.

How was the initial setup?

The terminology and configuration took some time to learn. In some ways, it does not do what you think it will do, so be careful.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We looked at RabbitMQ and AWS SQS.

What other advice do I have?

If you are getting started, go with Kafka.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

it_user578814

Freelancer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 5, 2017

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The product provides message-level acknowledging and message persistency.

What is most valuable?

Most valuable to us are fast asynchronous message queuing with message-level acknowledging and message persistency.

How has it helped my organization?

ActiveMQ operates as the message bus across single-purpose components. Thanks to ActiveMQ, the system is able to scale its heavy computing components during traffic peaks.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see improvement in the clustering brokers. Configuring ActiveMQ brokers for working in a cluster is difficult and has many constraints. Also, the configuration files are not intuitive.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using ActiveMQ for about 6 years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have not encountered any stability issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The only issue we had concerned the practical limit of 2000 messages per broker, per second. The next step, which is multiplying brokers, worked well though.

How is customer service and technical support?

I have not used technical support so far.

How was the initial setup?

Initial setup is quite complex when done for a high performance system. The configuration files are not intuitive.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.