Difference between RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, and ActiveMQ

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8 min readMay 19, 2023

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Difference between RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, and ActiveMQ

Hello folks, if you are preparing for Java Developer interviews the along with Spring Boot, and Microservices, you should also prepare about things like messaging brokers, kafka, rabbitmq, and activemq like what is difference between Kafka, RabbitMQ, and ActiveMQ?, which is also one of the popular questions on Java interviews.

In my last article, I shared about difference between JWT, OAuth, and SAML and REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC, and in this article, I am going to share my thoughts on Kafka, RabbitMQ, and ActiveMQ, three popular message brokers used for asynchronous communication.

Messaging systems play a crucial role in modern distributed architectures, where applications and services communicate with each other over a network.

The messaging systems allow decoupling of the sender and receiver, thereby enabling asynchronous communication. RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, and ActiveMQ are three popular messaging systems used in the industry.

In this article, we will discuss the differences between RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, and ActiveMQ.

By the way, if you are preparing for Java developer interviews you can also checkout my earlier posts about 21 Software Design Pattern questions, 10 Microservice Scenario based questions, 20 SQL queries from Interviews, 50

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