RabbitMQ
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VisitRabbitMQ vs VerneMQ
What both publish
| Fact | RabbitMQ | VerneMQ |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial support | VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ offers 24/7 support from its core engineering team, and the contact page says highest severity issues receive attention within 30 minutes, 24/7/365. | Commercial services include core-engineer development support, pre-production workshops, enterprise support contracts, cluster health checks, hot fixes, and emergency patches. |
| Community support | The RabbitMQ project provides best-effort community support through GitHub, Discord, a mailing list, and IRC. | The community page lists a mailing list and Slack for users, and directs bug reports to GitHub's issue tracker. |
| Deployment | RabbitMQ can run on cloud infrastructure, on-premises, local machines, physical or virtual hardware, containers and IaaS providers. | VerneMQ is built for Linux and also runs on Mac OS X; the download page says Windows is not currently supported due to LevelDB code. |
| Integrations | RabbitMQ provides client libraries for Java, .NET/C#, Erlang, and other languages, and offers a community Docker image and Kubernetes operators. | Listed integrations and interfaces include bridges, WebSockets, Graphite, Prometheus, Lua scripting, webhooks, and an HTTP Administration API. |
| Product | RabbitMQ is an open source messaging and streaming broker for application communication, including distributed microservices, real-time data, and IoT. | VerneMQ is an open-source, distributed MQTT publish/subscribe broker designed for scalability, reliability, and high performance. |
RabbitMQ plans
- Open-source RabbitMQFree
- Open Source RabbitMQ ServerFree
- Tanzu RabbitMQPriced on request
- VMware Tanzu RabbitMQPriced on request
VerneMQ plans
- Production subscriptionPriced on request
Pick RabbitMQ if…
You want what its maker publishes above — check its page for the details.
Pick VerneMQ if…
VerneMQ suits teams running MQTT infrastructure on Linux or other self-hosted systems. It is relevant for IoT, mobile messaging, and smart-infrastructure projects needing clustering and configurable authentication.