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ActiveMQ vs Redis: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is Redis? An in-memory database that persists on disk. Redis is an open source, BSD licensed, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.

ActiveMQ and Redis are primarily classified as "Message Queue" and "In-Memory Databases" tools respectively.

"Open source" is the primary reason why developers consider ActiveMQ over the competitors, whereas "Performance" was stated as the key factor in picking Redis.

ActiveMQ and Redis are both open source tools. Redis with 37.1K GitHub stars and 14.3K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than ActiveMQ with 1.49K GitHub stars and 1.04K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Redis has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3239 company stacks & 1732 developers stacks; compared to ActiveMQ, which is listed in 33 company stacks and 17 developer stacks.

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Pros of ActiveMQ
Pros of Redis
  • 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
  • 884
    Performance
  • 541
    Super fast
  • 512
    Ease of use
  • 443
    In-memory cache
  • 323
    Advanced key-value cache
  • 193
    Open source
  • 182
    Easy to deploy
  • 164
    Stable
  • 155
    Free
  • 121
    Fast
  • 42
    High-Performance
  • 40
    High Availability
  • 34
    Data Structures
  • 32
    Very Scalable
  • 24
    Replication
  • 22
    Great community
  • 22
    Pub/Sub
  • 18
    "NoSQL" key-value data store
  • 15
    Hashes
  • 13
    Sets
  • 11
    Sorted Sets
  • 10
    Lists
  • 9
    BSD licensed
  • 9
    NoSQL
  • 8
    Async replication
  • 8
    Bitmaps
  • 8
    Integrates super easy with Sidekiq for Rails background
  • 7
    Open Source
  • 7
    Keys with a limited time-to-live
  • 6
    Lua scripting
  • 6
    Strings
  • 5
    Hyperloglogs
  • 5
    Awesomeness for Free
  • 4
    Feature Rich
  • 4
    Networked
  • 4
    Outstanding performance
  • 4
    Runs server side LUA
  • 4
    Transactions
  • 4
    Written in ANSI C
  • 4
    LRU eviction of keys
  • 3
    Performance & ease of use
  • 3
    Data structure server
  • 2
    Temporarily kept on disk
  • 2
    Channels concept
  • 2
    Simple
  • 2
    Dont save data if no subscribers are found
  • 2
    Object [key/value] size each 500 MB
  • 2
    Automatic failover
  • 2
    Easy to use
  • 2
    Existing Laravel Integration
  • 2
    Scalable

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Cons of ActiveMQ
Cons of Redis
  • 1
    ONLY Vertically Scalable
  • 1
    Support
  • 1
    Low resilience to exceptions and interruptions
  • 1
    Difficult to scale
  • 15
    Cannot query objects directly
  • 3
    No secondary indexes for non-numeric data types
  • 1
    No WAL

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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 Redis?

Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.

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