Hutch vs VerneMQ: What are the differences?

What is Hutch? Inter-Service Communication with RabbitMQ. Hutch is a Ruby library for enabling asynchronous inter-service communication in a service-oriented architecture, using RabbitMQ.

What is VerneMQ? VerneMQ is a distributed IoT/MQTT message broker. 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..

Hutch and VerneMQ can be categorized as "Message Queue" tools.

Some of the features offered by Hutch are:

• A simple way to define consumers (queues are automatically created and bound to the exchange with the appropriate binding keys)
• An executable and CLI for running consumers (akin to rake resque:work)
• Automatic setup of the central exchange

On the other hand, VerneMQ provides the following key features:

• Open Source, Apache 2 licensed
• QoS 0, QoS 1, QoS 2
• MQTT v5.0 fully implemented

Hutch and VerneMQ are both open source tools. It seems that VerneMQ with 1.76K GitHub stars and 189 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Hutch with 712 GitHub stars and 103 GitHub forks.