ActiveMQ vs EMQX comparison

Apache and EMQ are both solutions in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category. Apache is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.0, while EMQ is ranked #12. Apache holds a 31.8% mindshare in MQ, compared to EMQ’s 2.1% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Apache users are willing to recommend the solution.

ActiveMQ

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Categories and Ranking

ActiveMQ

Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software

2nd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

EMQX

Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software

12th

Average Rating

0.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IoT Connectivity (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category, the mindshare of ActiveMQ is 31.8%, up from 25.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of EMQX is 2.1%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Prashant-Sharma

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

Allows for asynchronous communication, enabling services to operate independently but issues with stability

The feature of ActiveMQ which I feel is good is its ability to have DLP, the later queues. If something goes wrong with the platform, it retries. Even if it fails, it goes to DLP, and later we can rescan the same event for processing. The ability to store the failed events for some time is valuable.

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

34%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

25%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Comms Service Provider

Energy/Utilities Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ActiveMQ?

For reliable messaging, the most valuable feature of ActiveMQ for us is ensuring prompt message delivery.

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What needs improvement with ActiveMQ?

We need to address the non-deterministic load issues. Sometimes, ActiveMQ either restarts automatically or goes into ActiveMQ mode, causing interruptions. We need to enhance stability and improve t...

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What is your primary use case for ActiveMQ?

We have a digital ID platform that uses various services running on Kafka. There are two main endpoints where services interact with external services. These include an automatic biometric service ...

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Comparisons

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Compared 47% of the time

MuleSoft Anypoint Platform vs ActiveMQ

Compared 17% of the time

Red Hat AMQ vs ActiveMQ

Compared 12% of the time

Amazon SQS vs ActiveMQ

Compared 6% of the time

VMware Tanzu Data Solutions vs ActiveMQ

Compared 3% of the time

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AWS IoT Core vs EMQX

Compared 57% of the time

Apache Kafka vs EMQX

Compared 9% of the time

VMware Tanzu Data Solutions vs EMQX

Compared 7% of the time

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Overview

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

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

EMQ is an innovative open-source software provider with strong roots in IoT data infrastructure, delivering the world’s leading cloud-native MQTT messaging, streaming database, and edge computing solutions. We power the organizations with future-proof IoT solutions and digital transformation through unified "Connect, Move, Process, and Analyze" IoT data in business-critical scenarios for the IoT era.

Since 2017 EMQ has been developing a high-performance and massively scalable distributed MQTT messaging server – EMQX to accelerate the connectivity and integration of a wide spectrum of IoT applications and data across multiple platforms.

So far, EMQX has been adopted by more than 20,000 global users from over 50 countries, connecting more than 100 million IoT devices worldwide.

EMQ’s robust and flexible edge-to-cloud IoT data solutions encompass a suite of technologies designed for IoT applications: reliability, security, availability, scalability, latency & throughput. This enables successful enterprise-grade IoT deployments with ease and scale.Your IoT data can be flexibly integrated into enterprise systems and pre-built extensions for quick integration to other enterprise systems such as Kafka, Confluent, MongoDB Atlas and Oracle, etc.

Website: www.emqx.io

Sample Customers

University of Washington, Daugherty Systems, CSC, STG Technologies, Inc.

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