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Comparing Huawei Cloud RocketMQ with Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Open-source RocketMQ

Comparison with Kafka and RabbitMQ

Kafka is pull-based and provides higher throughput. It is suitable for collecting and delivering large volumes of data in various scenarios, such as collecting and analyzing logs. RabbitMQ does not provide as high throughput as Kafka, but it offers more messaging functions.

The following compares the performance, data reliability, service availability, and functions of Kafka, RabbitMQ, and RocketMQ.

  • Performance

    The performance of message-oriented middleware is measured by throughput. While RabbitMQ provides tens of thousands of QPS, Kafka provides millions. RocketMQ delivers tens of thousands QPS per broker (higher than RabbitMQ but lower than Kafka).

  • Data reliability

    Kafka, RabbitMQ, and RocketMQ provide the replication mechanism to ensure high data reliability. RocketMQ uses the Raft consistency protocol, which ensures higher data consistency than Kafka and RabbitMQ.

  • Service availability

    Kafka runs in clusters and has partitions and replicas, so failure of a single broker does not affect services, and the capacity of Kafka can be linearly scaled up. RabbitMQ also supports clustered deployment with different numbers of nodes. RocketMQ uses the Raft consistency protocol. If a single server breaks down, another server is elected as master, ensuring high availability.

  • Function

    See Comparing RocketMQ, Kafka, and RabbitMQ.

Comparison with Open-source RocketMQ

DMS for RocketMQ is compatible with open-source RocketMQ and has customized and enhanced RocketMQ features. In addition to the advantages of open-source RocketMQ, DMS for RocketMQ provides more reliable and useful features. Learn more