ActiveMQ vs EMQX comparison

Apache and EMQ are both solutions in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category. Apache is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.1, while EMQ is ranked #11. Apache holds a 26.1% mindshare in MQ, compared to EMQ’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Apache users are willing to recommend the solution.

ActiveMQ

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89% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

ActiveMQ

Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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EMQX

Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software

11th

Average Rating

0.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IoT Connectivity (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category, the mindshare of ActiveMQ is 26.1%, up from 22.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of EMQX is 1.4%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Eyob Alemu

Technical Director at NIDP

Efficient data flow management with high performance and occasional stability improvements

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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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

33%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

22%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Comms Service Provider

Energy/Utilities Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ActiveMQ?

For reliable messaging, the most valuable feature of ActiveMQ for us is ensuring prompt message delivery.

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What needs improvement with ActiveMQ?

With ActiveMQ there should be more options. If you work with other technologies, for example, Java, there are many options. We can integrate the way we want ActiveMQ. We can create partitions and c...

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What is your primary use case for ActiveMQ?

ActiveMQ inside AP is one of those powerful features because we generally use ActiveMQ for acting on incidents which do not involve any human interaction or personal activity. For example, you have...

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Comparisons

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Compared 53% of the time

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Compared 18% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

Redis vs ActiveMQ

Compared 2% of the time

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Compared 61% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

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Overview

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

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

Apache

EMQ is an innovative open-source software provider with strong roots in IoT data infrastructure, delivering the world’s leading cloud-native MQTT messaging, streaming database, and edge computing solutions. We power the organizations with future-proof IoT solutions and digital transformation through unified "Connect, Move, Process, and Analyze" IoT data in business-critical scenarios for the IoT era.

Since 2017 EMQ has been developing a high-performance and massively scalable distributed MQTT messaging server – EMQX to accelerate the connectivity and integration of a wide spectrum of IoT applications and data across multiple platforms.

So far, EMQX has been adopted by more than 20,000 global users from over 50 countries, connecting more than 100 million IoT devices worldwide.

EMQ’s robust and flexible edge-to-cloud IoT data solutions encompass a suite of technologies designed for IoT applications: reliability, security, availability, scalability, latency & throughput. This enables successful enterprise-grade IoT deployments with ease and scale.Your IoT data can be flexibly integrated into enterprise systems and pre-built extensions for quick integration to other enterprise systems such as Kafka, Confluent, MongoDB Atlas and Oracle, etc.

Website: www.emqx.io

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Sample Customers

University of Washington, Daugherty Systems, CSC, STG Technologies, Inc.

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