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ActiveMQ vs NServiceBus: What are the differences?

ActiveMQ: A message broker written in Java together with a full JMS client. 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; NServiceBus: *Enterprise-grade scalability and reliability for your workflows and integrations *. Performance, scalability, pub/sub, reliable integration, workflow orchestration, and everything else you could possibly want in a service bus.

ActiveMQ and NServiceBus belong to "Message Queue" category of the tech stack.

ActiveMQ is an open source tool with 1.53K GitHub stars and 1.06K GitHub forks. Here's a link to ActiveMQ's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, ActiveMQ has a broader approval, being mentioned in 52 company stacks & 120 developers stacks; compared to NServiceBus, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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Pros of ActiveMQ
Pros of NServiceBus
  • 18
    Easy to use
  • 14
    Open source
  • 13
    Efficient
  • 10
    JMS compliant
  • 6
    High Availability
  • 5
    Scalable
  • 3
    Distributed Network of brokers
  • 3
    Persistence
  • 3
    Support XA (distributed transactions)
  • 1
    Docker delievery
  • 1
    Highly configurable
  • 0
    RabbitMQ
  • 1
    Not as good as alternatives, good job security
  • 1
    Brings on-prem issues to the cloud

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Cons of ActiveMQ
Cons of NServiceBus
  • 1
    ONLY Vertically Scalable
  • 1
    Support
  • 1
    Low resilience to exceptions and interruptions
  • 1
    Difficult to scale
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    What is ActiveMQ?

    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.

    What is NServiceBus?

    Performance, scalability, pub/sub, reliable integration, workflow orchestration, and everything else you could possibly want in a service bus.

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      Kafka
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      Apollo
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      ZeroMQ
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