ActiveMQ Reviews

Name: ActiveMQ
Brand: Apache
Rating: 3.9 (26 reviews)

Vendor: Apache

3.9 out of 5

26 reviews
88% willing to recommend

969 followers

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What is ActiveMQ?

Apache ActiveMQ is the most popular and powerful open source messaging and Integration Patterns server.

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ActiveMQ is the #2 ranked solution in top Message Queue Software. PeerSpot users give ActiveMQ an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. ActiveMQ is most commonly compared to MuleSoft Anypoint Platform: ActiveMQ vs MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. ActiveMQ is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 76% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 34% of all views.

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Featured ActiveMQ reviews

Prashant-Sharma

Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The feature of ActiveMQ which I feel is good is its ability to have DLP, the later queues. If something goes wrong with the platform, it retries. Even if it fails, it goes to DLP, and later we can rescan the same event for processing. The ability to store the failed events for some time is valuable.

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Eyob Alemu

Technical Director at NIDP

For high traffic volumes where management time on ActiveMQ is minimal and where the rate of flow from the provider is slower than from the consumer, ActiveMQ offers the highest performance based on our experience. It has been efficient for data flow control between two endpoints, despite occasional unexpected glitches. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

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Jodi Setiyawan

Lead Data Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

The stability of ActiveMQ could be improved. Occasionally, the MQTT broker goes down, requiring a restart, so enhancing its stability would be beneficial. Also, the current monitoring tools could be more user-friendly and faster. I'm currently using the default ActiveMQ monitoring tool, which is quite basic. It would be great if it could provide more detailed insights into the queues, topics, broker status, publisher status, and consumer status. For additional functionality, I suggest making it easier to install and monitor the queues, topics, broker status, publisher status, and consumer status. Improved monitoring tools would help avoid needing to manually access the server for monitoring purposes.

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ActiveMQ mindshare

As of May 2025, the mindshare of ActiveMQ in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category stands at 26.4%, up from 21.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerResearch reports based on ActiveMQ reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	Message Queue (MQ) Software	May 19, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	May 19, 2025	Download
Comparison	ActiveMQ vs IBM MQ	May 19, 2025	Download
Comparison	ActiveMQ vs Amazon SQS	May 19, 2025	Download
Comparison	ActiveMQ vs MuleSoft Anypoint Platform	May 19, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
MuleSoft Anypoint Platform	4.0	9.5%	92%	58 interviews Add to research
IBM MQ	4.2	26.2%	94%	169 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"We value ActiveMQ for its performance, throughput, and low latency, especially in handling large volumes of data and sequential management of topics."
"The main function I find valuable in ActiveMQ is facilitating message transfer within the client's internal network. ActiveMQ handles the message transfer from the internal network to the cloud. Regarding multi-protocols, we use different approaches based on client capabilities. Some clients connect for real-time data transfer, using database queries for periodic updates every ten minutes. We collect data from multiple clients, ensuring we get real-time sensor values where possible and periodic updates for others."
"There is a vibrant community, and it is one of the strongest points of this product. We always get answers to our problems. So, my experience with the community support has been good."

Room for Improvement

"We need to enhance stability and improve the deployment optimization to fully leverage the platform's capabilities."
"For additional functionality, I suggest making it easier to install and monitor the queues, topics, broker status, publisher status, and consumer status. Improved monitoring tools would help avoid needing to manually access the server for monitoring purposes."
"The UI. It's both a good thing and a bad thing. The UI is too simple. Sometimes you wanna see the messages coming to the queue, and you have to refresh the dashboard, the console of the product."

Pricing

ActiveMQ is widely recognized for its cost-effectiveness as an open-source solution, often described as free due to its standard Apache licensing. Many organizations emphasize the absence of fees and acknowledge its competitive pricing relative to alternatives like JMS and Kafka. Enterprises leverage the open-source version without incurring setup costs, appreciating its affordability and reliability.

"The solution is less expensive than its competitors."
"The tool's pricing is reasonable and competitive compared to other solutions."
"ActiveMQ is open source, so it is free to use."

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Learn more about ActiveMQ

Apache ActiveMQ is fast, supports many Cross Language Clients and Protocols, comes with easy to use Enterprise Integration Patterns and many advanced features while fully supporting JMS 1.1 and J2EE 1.4. Apache ActiveMQ is released under the Apache 2.0 License

ActiveMQ was previously known as AMQ.