After reading some interesting posts here on SO, and many pages found on google, I would like to ask you for help with decision what JMS/AMQP broker to choose. We are facing simple problem in our company. We need to use reliable message-based system for communication of nodes in cluster. Since we have “our own” solution for this, it’s becoming quite clutter for us as we are trying to add more and more functionality into it (plus, it’s buggy :)).
I really don’t want to raise another question about which broker is better/worse, I would rather like to ask you about your personal experience and observation about reliability/complexity/flexibility of JMS/AMQP brokers. (i.e. I’ve found some confusing information about ActiveMQ, saying it’s not stable yet many people consider it to be best JMS solution out there)
Currently, our system sends approx. 100 mps, so it’s not big load, yet we need to be able to scale it in the future as more and more nodes will be added into cluster. Each node should be will be sending and receiving messages. We need to find as reliable solution as possible.
Thank you for your answers.
Generally speaking the more robust brokers are commercial ones. I have used ActiveMQ in production and it had a few problems I was able to work around. It supported up to 20K messages per second. I would use it again.