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Azure Service Bus vs ZeroMQ: What are the differences?

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When comparing Azure Service Bus and ZeroMQ, it is important to understand their key differences to effectively choose the right messaging solution for your application.

1. Protocol Support: Azure Service Bus supports AMQP, MQTT, and HTTP protocols, providing flexibility for communication with various systems, while ZeroMQ uses its own lightweight protocol designed for high-performance messaging.

2. Messaging Patterns: Azure Service Bus primarily focuses on providing enterprise messaging features like message queues, topics, and subscriptions, ensuring reliable message delivery in cloud environments. On the other hand, ZeroMQ offers a more lightweight and flexible approach with different messaging patterns like pub-sub, request-reply, and pipeline.

3. Message Durability: In Azure Service Bus, messages are persisted to ensure high availability and durability through features like message streaming and dead-letter queues, while ZeroMQ does not inherently guarantee message persistence, relying on applications to handle message reliability.

4. Scalability: Azure Service Bus offers horizontal scaling by distributing message processing across multiple instances, making it suitable for handling large volumes of messages in enterprise scenarios, whereas ZeroMQ's lightweight nature makes it more suitable for localized, high-performance messaging within a single application or system.

5. Cloud Integration: Azure Service Bus seamlessly integrates with other Azure services and provides built-in security features like access control and role-based authentication, making it well-suited for cloud-native applications, whereas ZeroMQ can be integrated into a wide range of environments but may require additional security measures to be implemented.

6. Licensing and Cost: Azure Service Bus is a managed service provided by Microsoft Azure, with pricing based on usage and features, while ZeroMQ is an open-source library with no direct cost but may require additional resources for maintenance and support.

In Summary, Understanding the key differences between Azure Service Bus and ZeroMQ can help in making an informed decision based on the specific requirements of your messaging application.

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André Almeida
Technology Manager at GS1 Portugal - Codipor · | 5 upvotes · 410.6K views
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Hello dear developers, our company is starting a new project for a new Web App, and we are currently designing the Architecture (we will be using .NET Core). We want to embark on something new, so we are thinking about migrating from a monolithic perspective to a microservices perspective. We wish to containerize those microservices and make them independent from each other. Is it the best way for microservices to communicate with each other via ESB, or is there a new way of doing this? Maybe complementing with an API Gateway? Can you recommend something else different than the two tools I provided?

We want something good for Cost/Benefit; performance should be high too (but not the primary constraint).

Thank you very much in advance :)

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A Pro of Azure Service Bus is reliability and persistence: you can send message when receiver is offline; receiver can read it when it back online. A Cons is costs and message size. You can consider also SignalR

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There are many different messaging frameworks available for IPC use. It's not really a question of how "new" the technology is, but what you need it to do. Azure Service Bus can be a great service to use, but it can also take a lot of effort to administrate and maintain that can make it costly to use unless you need the more advanced features it offers for routing, sequencing, delivery, etc. I would recommend checking out this link to get a basic idea of different messaging architectures. These only cover Azure services, but there are many other solutions that use similar architectural models.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-grid/compare-messaging-services

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Pros of Azure Service Bus
Pros of ZeroMQ
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    Easy Integration with .Net
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    Cloud Native
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    Use while high messaging need
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    Fast
  • 20
    Lightweight
  • 11
    Transport agnostic
  • 7
    No broker required
  • 4
    Low level APIs are in C
  • 4
    Low latency
  • 1
    Open source
  • 1
    Publish-Subscribe

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Cons of Azure Service Bus
Cons of ZeroMQ
  • 1
    Limited features in Basic tier
  • 1
    Skills can only be used in Azure - vendor lock-in
  • 1
    Lacking in JMS support
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    Observability of messages in the queue is lacking
  • 5
    No message durability
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    Not a very reliable system - message delivery wise
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    M x N problem with M producers and N consumers

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What is Azure Service Bus?

It is a cloud messaging system for connecting apps and devices across public and private clouds. You can depend on it when you need highly-reliable cloud messaging service between applications and services, even when one or more is offline.

What is ZeroMQ?

The 0MQ lightweight messaging kernel is a library which extends the standard socket interfaces with features traditionally provided by specialised messaging middleware products. 0MQ sockets provide an abstraction of asynchronous message queues, multiple messaging patterns, message filtering (subscriptions), seamless access to multiple transport protocols and more.

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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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MSMQ
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IBM MQ
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