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ActiveMQ vs IronMQ: What are the differences?
Developers describe ActiveMQ as "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. On the other hand, IronMQ is detailed as "Message Queue for any deployment". An easy-to-use highly available message queuing service. Built for distributed cloud applications with critical messaging needs. Provides on-demand message queuing with advanced features and cloud-optimized performance.
ActiveMQ and IronMQ can be categorized as "Message Queue" tools.
"Open source" is the primary reason why developers consider ActiveMQ over the competitors, whereas "Great Support" was stated as the key factor in picking IronMQ.
ActiveMQ is an open source tool with 1.5K GitHub stars and 1.05K 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 33 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to IronMQ, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Pros of ActiveMQ
- Easy to use18
- Open source14
- Efficient13
- JMS compliant10
- High Availability6
- Scalable5
- Distributed Network of brokers3
- Persistence3
- Support XA (distributed transactions)3
- Docker delievery1
- Highly configurable1
- RabbitMQ0
Pros of IronMQ
- Great Support12
- Heroku Add-on8
- Push support3
- Delayed delivery upto 7 days3
- Super fast2
- Language agnostic2
- Good analytics/monitoring2
- Ease of configuration2
- GDPR Compliant2
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Cons of ActiveMQ
- ONLY Vertically Scalable1
- Support1
- Low resilience to exceptions and interruptions1
- Difficult to scale1
Cons of IronMQ
- Can't use rabbitmqadmin1
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