ActiveMQ vs Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS comparison

Apache and Red Hat are both solutions in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category. Apache is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.1, while Red Hat is ranked #13. Apache holds a 26.2% mindshare in MQ, compared to Red Hat’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Apache users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

ActiveMQ

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89% willing to recommend

Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS

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96 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between ActiveMQ and Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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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

No ranking in other categories

Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS

Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software

13th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category, the mindshare of ActiveMQ is 26.2%, up from 23.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS is 0.5%, up from 0.3% 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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Akran Ruiz

System Administrator at BH Bank

It's scalable and easy to use, and we have local support here in Tunisia

We have an application-presentation layer, and we use JBoss to communicate with the application layer. The interceptors use Active MQ. JBoss is easy to use, and we have a good partner here in Tunisia to provide local support. JBoss could add more automation. We have been using JBoss for five…

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Message broadcasting: There could be a use case sending the same message to all consumers. So as a producer, I broadcast the message to a topic. Then, whichever consumers are subscribed to the topic can consume the same message."

"I appreciate many features including queue, topic, durable topic, and selectors. I also value a different support for different protocols such as MQTT and AMQP. It has full support for EIP, REST, Message Groups, UDP, and TCP."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the holding and forwarding."

"It’s a JMS broker, so the fact that it can allow for asynchronous communication is valuable."

"Reliable message delivery and mirroring."

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

"The most important feature is that it's best for JVM-related languages and JMS integration."

"We value ActiveMQ for its performance, throughput, and low latency, especially in handling large volumes of data and sequential management of topics."

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"JBoss is easy to use, and we have a good partner here in Tunisia to provide local support."

Cons

"Distributed message processing would be a nice addition."

"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."

"AI capabilities require improvement in future updates."

"There are some stability issues."

"Needs to focus on a certain facet and be good at it, instead of handling support for most of the available message brokers."

"From the TPS point of view, it's like 100,000 transactions that need to be admitted from different devices and also from the different minor small systems. Those are best fit for Kafka. We have used it on the customer side, and we thought of giving a try to ActiveMQ, but we have to do a lot of performance tests and approval is required before we can use it for this scale."

"It does not scale out well. It ends up being very complex if you have a lot of mirror queues."

"I would like the tool to improve compliance and stability. We will encounter issues while using the central applications. In the solution's future releases, I want to control and set limitations for databases."

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"JBoss could add more automation."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool's pricing is reasonable and competitive compared to other solutions."

"I think the software is free."

"There are no fees because it is open-source."

"ActiveMQ is open source, so it is free to use."

"We are using the open-source version, so we have not looked at any pricing."

"I use open source with standard Apache licensing."

"It’s open source, ergo free."

"We use the open-source version."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

33%

Computer Software Company

10%

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Government

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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?

Pricing is something to consider with ActiveMQ, though cloud pricing is not costly and depends upon the compute selection. Focusing on AI is essential nowadays. AI capabilities require improvement ...

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What is your primary use case for ActiveMQ?

In my current organization, I'm only working with ActiveMQ. I previously worked with IBM WebSphere MQ.

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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

To respond to business demands quickly and efficiently, you need a way to integrate the applications and data spread across your enterprise. Red Hat JBoss A-MQ—based on the Apache ActiveMQ open source project—is a flexible, high-performance messaging platform that delivers information reliably, enabling real-time integration and connecting the Internet of Things (IoT).

Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS extends the capabilities to our Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution, Red Hat OpenShift, for messaging services in the cloud.

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Sample Customers

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

E*TRADE, CERN, CenturyLink, AECOM, Sabre Holdings

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