Activemq vs amqp

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Amqp (Advanced Message Queue Protocol) Is the specification for the interaction between a message client and a broker. It is a specification for wire-level protocol communication between client and Message Broker. Unlike activemq, activemq is a message system, but a message protocol.

 

Activemq aims to eventually support amqp 1.0 specifications and other open protocols.

Activemq supports two open wire protocols:

• Openwire, a very fast binary Protocol
• Stomp, a simple and convenient text-based protocol

Through these protocols, activemq can support clients in C, C ++, C #, Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP, pike etc. amqp is most similar to openwire, because both openwire and amqp are designed for high performance messaging, through a binary (rather than text-based) format.
As a text-based format, stomp is much easier to implement, but gives somewhat slower performance.

 

Through these protocols, activemq can support clients in various environments, such as C, C ++, C #, Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP, and Pike.

Amqp is very similar to openwire because they are designed to pass messages in binary format (more efficient than text) and support high performance.

As a text-based format, stomp is easy to implement and has low performance.