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Mosquitto vs EMQ: What are the differences?

What is Mosquitto? An open source message broker that implements the MQTT protocol. It is lightweight and is suitable for use on all devices from low power single board computers to full servers.. The MQTT protocol provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for Internet of Things messaging such as with low power sensors or mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or microcontrollers.

What is EMQ? The Scalable MQTT Broker for IoT and Mobile Applications. It is fully open source and licensed under the Apache Version 2.0. It implements both MQTT V3.1 and V3.1.1 protocol specifications, and supports MQTT-SN, CoAP, WebSocket, STOMP and SockJS at the same time.

Mosquitto and EMQ can be primarily classified as "Message Queue" tools.

Mosquitto and EMQ are both open source tools. Mosquitto with 2.97K GitHub stars and 1.02K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than EMQ with 181 GitHub stars and 96 GitHub forks.

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What is EMQX?

EMQX is a cloud-native, MQTT-based, IoT messaging platform designed for high reliability and massive scale. Licensed under the Apache Version 2.0, EMQX is 100% compliant with MQTT 5.0 and 3.x standard protocol specifications.

What is Mosquitto?

It is lightweight and is suitable for use on all devices from low power single board computers to full servers.. The MQTT protocol provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for Internet of Things messaging such as with low power sensors or mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or microcontrollers.

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What are some alternatives to EMQX and Mosquitto?
VerneMQ
VerneMQ is a distributed MQTT message broker, implemented in Erlang/OTP. It's open source, and Apache 2 licensed. VerneMQ implements the MQTT 3.1, 3.1.1 and 5.0 specifications.
MQTT
It was designed as an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport. It is useful for connections with remote locations where a small code footprint is required and/or network bandwidth is at a premium.
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.
Kafka
Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.
Amazon SQS
Transmit any volume of data, at any level of throughput, without losing messages or requiring other services to be always available. With SQS, you can offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available messaging cluster, while paying a low price for only what you use.
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