I'm confused with different message brokers.
My devices are using MQTT. So far I have looked at HiveMQ, IBM Messagesight, RabbitMQ, google pub and sub, AWS SQS.
What's the difference between HiveMQ(MQTT message broker) and RabbitMQ (or pub and sub, SQS)?
Besides the protocol and cost might be different, is there any difference in their functionalities? And one more question, is IBM messagesight a message broker, is it any different from google pub and sub or rabbit?
I cannot find any information about messagesight.
Generally, you can use Mosquitto, RabbitMQ, HiveMQ or other broker for MQTT.
Mosquitto and RabbitMQ are open source (free), HiveMQ is now (2020) also open source, before you could try it for free. I've only used Mosquitto and RabbitMQ, my comments for them:
Mosquitto: easy to configure, but we've experienced some instability of it, it just stopped working for no reason after running few days, so we decided to switch to RabbitMQ.
RabbitMQ: has plugin for MQTT, the configuration is more complicated than mosquitto. It took me a full day to figure out how to use MQTT with SSL login. RabbitMQ comes with a management plugin, which provides a nice GUI (no GUI for mosquitto).
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I'm looking to use a message queue system for an ongoing project, which now is relying on a custom (and brittle) message subsystem to interconnect multiple applications. Both the pub/sub and queue patterns are heavily used in my system.
Apache Apollo is one of the message queue systems I'm taking into account, but I don't find information about how can I handle (for instance) an Apollo server failure.
Is there a way to provide failover support in Apollo?
No, as of now this has not been resolved. Apollo is a very good broker, indeed, but lacks some production critical features like fail over. Apollo was an attempt to make a core for the next generation of ActiveMQ. However, the development is no loger active.
Have you considered other brokers like Apache Artemis? It's basically a new attempt to remake ActiveMQ with code from HornetQ, ActiveMQ and Apollo. Development is very active at the moment and there is support for fail over etc.
I'm kind of new to these protocols, and just started exploring Message brokers like Apache Apollo and RabbitMQ.
So my broker receives MQTT messages from a publisher. And I would like to convert it into AMQP (preferably) or STOMP protocol to send to a web server. But I've so far been unable to do so.
I looked into RabbitMQ, and tried enabling the MQTT plugin, but when I do load it, I'm unable to start the server.
I was wondering if anyone can guide me here? Is there an API that can help me? And I'm very confused about RabbitMQ. I've been able to load other plugins easily,like stomp, management utilities etc.
I'm 100% sure it is doable. I am doing it right now with robomq.io broker. One cause could be sometimes bugs in your client library restrict you doing so.
Another thing you should be aware of is that internally, RabbitMQ MQTT adapter is mapped into amq.topic exchange by default, so on your STOMP peer, you should subscribe or send to /topic/yourTopic; on your AMQP peer, bind your queue to amq.topic exchange or publish to that exchange.
Follow this example code and documentation to build your client.
If you can't figure out your server, just get a free trial from robomq.io. It saves you time and money.
The development tool I am using is robomq.io broker, producers in Python (AMQP library: pika, MQTT library: paho, STOMP library: stompest), consumer in Node.js (library: amqplib).
Hope it helps!
Well, I'm not sure if this question should be taken down. But if it has to be I leave it to the discretion of the moderators and the stackOverflow community in general.
btw, I use Ubuntu 14.04.
About the RabbitMQ broker
So Mosquitto was running un the background occupying the port 1883 normally used for MQTT. I could have changed the port for RabbitMQ, but decided against it and tried to kill the Mosquitto process. But for some reason, I could NOT.
For now, my quick fix was removing Mosquitto completely and this freed the port, enabling RabbitMQ to use it.
About the protocols
I've used Paho and the RabbitMQ libraries provided to code out simple programs that can publish and receive messages in AMQP/MQTT via the RabbitMQ broker.
(My Googling needs to be better!)
Still haven't converted one to the other. But that shouldn't be too big a step to achieve.
Still would be nice to know if there's an API or something that can help me achieve the conversion in a very simple manner. Of course, if there's not, I'll figure it out ASAP
Any suggestions/comments are heartily welcome. I'm brand new to all this and could really use advice from all you seasoned pros :)
RabbitMQ supports multiple protocols, AMQP, MQTT, STOMP, ....
When using PHP for example, it's easier to publish using the STOMP library since the PHP AMQP libraries requires compiled C code and is somewhat of a mission to setup if you don't have to.
On the JAVA side, apache camel with AMQP on spring is pretty straight forward.
Is it possible to setup a queue, publish to it via STOMP and then consume via AMQP and then again publish via AMQP and consume via STOMP if the message broker is RabbitMQ?
Yes, this should work, given that you have installed RabbitMQ's STOMP plugin on your RabbitMQ node(s).
The protocol only defines the communication between client and server and has no impact on a message itself.
You should note that using protocols other than AMQP will most likely come along with limitations and/or worse performance.
There also exist native PHP libraries for RabbitMQ that don't require compiling C code. Unfortunately, I cannot tell you which one is the best, because I am a Java guy ;-).
I have the following situation that is affecting our ActiveMQ 5.8 broker.
Several Perl scripts on a Windows workstation connected to ActiveMQ using STOMP and subscribed (nondurable) to various topics. The power failed on the Workstation.
Using the Web console, I can see that ActiveMQ still thinks these subscribers are connected, based on the number of consumers shown and on the high temp message store being used. I had set for no producer flow control and set memory limits, so what I believe I am seeing is that ActiveMQ is spooling all messages to disk because it thinks the long dead subscribers are still connected and might eventually read them. It's been 30 days, and ActiveMQ still doesn't realize that these subscribers are no longer connected.
It there a way to configure ActiveMQ so that "undead" subscriber connections like these are eventually cleared automatically?
While the previous answer is basically correct, ActiveMQ does provide solutions for STOMP transports on the Broker to heart-beat connections, even if the client connects with STOMP v1.0. I blogged about this some time ago when ActiveMQ v5.6 was released, see the section on STOMP 1.0 default heartbeat configuration. Another option is to set tcp keepAlive on for the transport and tune your OS to use a shorter default check interval, the default is usually around two hours.
Though Stomp 1.1+ supports Heartbeating, Active MQ currently doesnt support inactive consumer detection for Stomp. (usually achieved with wireFormat.maxInactivityDuration).
Be Careful:
These values are currently not supported but are planned for a later release
ActiveMQ supports it for Openwire though. i,e after the configured duration the consumer would be considered DEAD !
I'm currently in the middle of developing a webapplication which needs a websocket connection to receive notifications of events from the server.
The clients are separated in groups and all the clients in a group must receive the same event notifications.
I thought that ActiveMQ could probably support this model, using different queues for each group of clients. It would also be relatively easy to push events to ActiveMQ using stomp, and then use stomp-over-websockets for the clients.
The problem I see is that messages should not be consumed by only one client, but distributed to all the clients connected to the queue.
Also the queue should not be stored. If a client is not connected when the event is generated, then it will never receive it.
I don't know ActiveMQ that much, so I'm not sure if this is possible or if there is another easy solution that could be used instead of writing my own message server.
Thanks
ActiveMQ 5.4.1 supports WebSockets natively (just like Stomp, JMS, etc.).
There is the concept of queues (you mentioned these), but also of topics.
In a queue, a single message will be received by exactly one consumer, in a topic
it goes to all the subscribers. See: http://activemq.apache.org/how-does-a-queue-compare-to-a-topic.html
There are some Stomp-WebSocket JS libraries floating around. Kaazing has a bundle that includes ActiveMQ and supports JMS API/Stomp protocol over WebSockets with support for older browsers, different client technologies, and Cross-Site security.
Look at Pusher, otherwise you'll need something that supports topic based pub/sub. You could look at Redis or RabbitMQ