WSO2 Message Broker vs Apache Kafka comparison
When it comes to message broker solutions, those can be categorized into 2 main types
- Standards based traditional message brokers (e.g. Apache ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, WSO2 MB, Apache Qpid)
- Proprietary modern message brokers (e.g. Apache Kafka, Kestrel)
Based on your requirement, you need to select the best category and then go for a specific vendor based on your needs, IT capacity and financial capabilities. In this post, I’m comparing 2 popular message brokers (WSO2 MB and Apache Kafka) from 2 categories. Even though it discusses about 2 specific brokers, you can consider this when comparing these 2 categories of message brokers.
Based on the above comparison, if you are looking for a high performance, large scale message storage platform which works in isolation without much connectivity to existing systems, you can select Apache Kafka. But your requirements is to build a messaging system which interconnects with existing systems seamlessly and with a moderate performance and easily manageable deployment with rich messaging features, you can select WSO2 MB.
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