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RSMQ vs Confluent: What are the differences?
What is RSMQ? A lightweight message queue for Node.js that requires no dedicated queue server. Just a Redis server. tl;dr: If you run a Redis server and currently use Amazon SQS or a similar message queue you might as well use this fast little replacement. Using a shared Redis server multiple Node.js processes can send / receive messages.
What is Confluent? We make a stream data platform to help companies harness their high volume real-time data streams. It is a data streaming platform based on Apache Kafka: a full-scale streaming platform, capable of not only publish-and-subscribe, but also the storage and processing of data within the stream.
RSMQ and Confluent are primarily classified as "Message Queue" and "Stream Processing" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by RSMQ are:
- Lightweight: Just Redis and ~500 lines of javascript.
- Guaranteed delivery of a message to exactly one recipient within a messages visibility timeout.
- Received messages that are not deleted will reappear after the visibility timeout.
On the other hand, Confluent provides the following key features:
- Reliable
- High-performance stream data platform
- Manage and organize data from different sources.
RSMQ is an open source tool with 1.1K GitHub stars and 84 GitHub forks. Here's a link to RSMQ's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Confluent
- Free for casual use4
- No hypercloud lock-in3
- Dashboard for kafka insight3
- Easily scalable2
- Zero devops2
Pros of RSMQ
- Simple, does one thing well2
- Comes with a visibility timeout feature similar to AWS1
- Written in TypeScript1
- Written in Coffeescript1
- Backed by Redis1
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Cons of Confluent
- Proprietary1
