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ActiveMQ vs simplehttp: 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, simplehttp is detailed as "A family of libraries and daemons built upon libevent that make high performance HTTP servers simple and straightforward to write". .
ActiveMQ and simplehttp can be categorized as "Message Queue" tools.
ActiveMQ and simplehttp are both open source tools. ActiveMQ with 1.5K GitHub stars and 1.05K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than simplehttp with 480 GitHub stars and 73 GitHub forks.
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 simplehttp
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Cons of ActiveMQ
- ONLY Vertically Scalable1
- Support1
- Low resilience to exceptions and interruptions1
- Difficult to scale1