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ActiveMQ vs Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS comparison

 

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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
28
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS
Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software
14th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category, the mindshare of ActiveMQ is 20.0%, down from 26.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS is 1.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Message Queue (MQ) Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ActiveMQ20.0%
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS1.9%
Other78.1%
Message Queue (MQ) Software
 

Featured Reviews

MD
Software Engineer III at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Integration capabilities enhance message handling without human interaction
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 clusters, but AP is not providing such options currently. It only provides time, request response timing, the number of requests that need to be handled, and protocol types. The configuration needs to be broadened inside AP to perform in a better way. Sometimes issues arise in production with ActiveMQ due to the number of requests. For example, if you have configured one thousand requests at a time and it receives one thousand and one messages at a time, it breaks. The configuration aspect is tricky. When configurations are proper, ActiveMQ almost has zero errors.
AR
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…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Loose coupling of components by the use of messaging queues allows for completely separate component life cycles and ownership within the organization."
"I fully recommend this product, but you need to have some expertise working with JMS and asynchronous tasks."
"ActiveMQ is a great messaging system for synchronizing call and "fire and forget" types of calls."
"We value ActiveMQ for its performance, throughput, and low latency, especially in handling large volumes of data and sequential management of topics."
"One of the most important features of ActiveMQ is the ability to set up a network of brokers, and the ability to forward the message to another broker in the network, where there is a demand for messages from a consumer."
"ActiveMQ demonstrates excellent stability and sturdiness."
"The initial setup is straightforward and only takes a few minutes."
"It’s a JMS broker, so the fact that it can allow for asynchronous communication is valuable."
"JBoss is easy to use, and we have a good partner here in Tunisia to provide local support."
 

Cons

"Another area of improvement is the monitoring console, which is kind of rudimentary."
"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."
"Distributed message processing would be a nice addition."
"Apache ActiveMQ needs some improvement playing with multi-platform message clients."
"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."
"Message Management: Better management of the messages. Perhaps persist them, or put in another queue with another life cycle."
"Needs to focus on a certain facet and be good at it, instead of handling support for most of the available message brokers."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"JBoss could add more automation."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are using the open-source version, so we have not looked at any pricing."
"We use the open-source version."
"The tool's pricing is reasonable and competitive compared to other solutions."
"It’s open source, ergo free."
"ActiveMQ is open source, so it is free to use."
"The solution is less expensive than its competitors."
"There are no fees because it is open-source."
"I think the software is free."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
25%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
5%
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Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise17
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Questions from the Community

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 ...
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.
What advice do you have for others considering ActiveMQ?
We have not deployed ActiveMQ's flexible clustering as that requirement is not present for us. We only use active-passive configuration. On a scale of one to ten, I rate ActiveMQ a ten out of ten.
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