Compare the Top Message Queue Software for Linux as of April 2025

What is Message Queue Software for Linux?

Message queue software is a system that enables asynchronous communication between different software applications or services by managing the transmission of messages in a queue format. These platforms help decouple the components of a system, allowing them to communicate efficiently without requiring direct interaction. Message queue software is often used in distributed systems, microservices architectures, and event-driven systems, where it ensures that messages are delivered reliably, even in the event of service downtime or system failures. It typically includes features such as message persistence, prioritization, retry mechanisms, and scaling capabilities to handle high volumes of data. Compare and read user reviews of the best Message Queue software for Linux currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    EMQX

    EMQX

    EMQ Technologies

    EMQX is the world's most scalable and reliable MQTT messaging platform designed by EMQ. It supports 100M concurrent IoT device connections per cluster while maintaining extremely high throughput and sub-millisecond latency. EMQX boasts more than 20,000 global users from over 50 countries, connecting more than 100M IoT devices worldwide, and is trusted by over 300 customers in mission-critical IoT scenarios, including well-known brands like HPE, VMware, Verifone, SAIC Volkswagen, and Ericsson. Our edge-to-cloud IoT connectivity solutions are flexible to meet the demands of various industries towards digital transformation, including connected vehicles, Industrial IoT, oil & gas, carrier, finance, smart energy, and smart cities.
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    Starting Price: $0.18 per hour
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    Ably

    Ably

    Ably

    Ably is the definitive realtime experience platform. We power more WebSocket connections than any other pub/sub platform, serving over a billion devices monthly. Businesses like HubSpot, NASCAR and Webflow trust us to power their critical applications - reliably, securely and at serious scale. Ably’s products place composable realtime in the hands of developers. Simple APIs and SDKs for every tech stack, enable the creation of a host of live experiences - including chat, collaboration, notifications, broadcast and fan engagement. All powered by our scalable infrastructure.
    Starting Price: $49.99/month
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    Pro Edition for Eclipse Mosquitto
    Pro Edition for Eclipse Mosquitto is a pro version of the world's #1 MQTT broker that quickly, stably, and reliably transmits data between IoT devices. Compared to the popular open-source version, our product offers professional MQTT broker and client administration and monitoring, MQTT High Availability, MQTT and REST API access, improved reliability, enhanced security, and professional support, making it an ideal solution for commercial use. Functionality highlights: Leverages Mosquitto Management Center to manage MQTT broker instances and clusters from a single interface. Ensures MQTT High Availability, making your solution available 24h. Ensures security through the use of client certificates and custom certificate authorities, application tokens with role-based access and expiry dates, and the use of the native Dynamic Security plugin to control access rights. Enables MQTT API and REST API to automate workflows and facilitate further integration with third-party systems.
    Starting Price: €23 per month
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    Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
    Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. SQS eliminates the complexity and overhead associated with managing and operating message oriented middleware, and empowers developers to focus on differentiating work. Using SQS, you can send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available. Get started with SQS in minutes using the AWS console, Command Line Interface or SDK of your choice, and three simple commands. Use Amazon SQS to transmit any volume of data, at any level of throughput, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available. SQS lets you decouple application components so that they run and fail independently, increasing the overall fault tolerance of the system.
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    FioranoMQ

    FioranoMQ

    Fiorano Software

    FioranoMQ® Fiorano's enterprise messaging backbone, seamlessly and securely integrates heterogeneous IT systems improving operational efficiency, business agility, and performance. With comprehensive support for standards-based communication, connectivity and transformation, the FioranoMQ JMS server minimize proprietary dependencies. It provides a powerful communication backbone that can be extended easily, allowing real-time delivery of data spanning multiple applications, platforms, partners and customers. Fiorano is the messaging middleware of choice supporting mission-critical operations for Global Leaders worldwide, delivering a new breed of high-performance, low latency solution for the digital enterprise. Security descriptors provide fine-grained control over which end-users and user-groups can access the API. Lowers hardware investment required for achieving high performance.
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    Azure Queue Storage
    Use Azure Queue Storage to build flexible applications and separate functions for better durability across large workloads. When you design applications for scale, application components can be decoupled, so that they can scale independently. Queue storage gives you asynchronous message queueing for communication between application components, whether they are running in the cloud, on the desktop, on-premises, or on mobile devices. Use Queue Storage to rightsize your service deployment. Applications absorb unexpected traffic bursts, which prevents servers from being overwhelmed by a sudden flood of requests. Monitor queue length to add elasticity to your application, and deploy or hibernate additional worker nodes based on customer demand.
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    AliwareMQ for IoT

    AliwareMQ for IoT

    Alibaba Cloud

    AliwareMQ for IoT is a message service that is designed specifically for IoT and mobile Internet (MI). The service can be applied to multiple scenarios, including live streaming, financial payments, smart catering, instant messaging, mobile apps, smart devices, and Internet of Vehicles. Message Queue for MQTT supports multiple protocols including MQTT and WebSocket to enable two-way communications between devices and the cloud. In this way, messages can be exchanged in multiple business models including C2C, C2B, and B2C to achieve Internet of Everything.
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    KubeMQ

    KubeMQ

    KubeMQ

    Innovative and modern message queue and message broker in a lightweight container developed to run in Kubernetes, certified in the CNCF landscape and connect natively to the cloud-native ecosystem. A message broker and message queue ideal for developers. Provides all messaging patterns, scalable, highly available, and secure. Connect microservices instantly using a rich set of connectors without writing any code. Easy-to-use SDKs and elimination of predefined topics, channels, brokers, and routes. Build & Deploy allows configurations of KubeMQ components to be built with a few clicks and deployed with kubectl command line. Innovative and modern message queue and message broker in a lightweight container developed to run in Kubernetes, certified in the CNCF landscape, and connect natively to the cloud-native ecosystem. Simple deployment in Kubernetes in less than 1 minute. Developer friendly by simple to use SDKs and elimination of the many developers and DevOps-centered challenges.
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    Anypoint MQ

    Anypoint MQ

    MuleSoft

    With Anypoint MQ, perform advanced asynchronous messaging — such as queueing and pub/sub — with fully hosted and managed cloud message queues and exchanges. As a service of Anypoint Platform™, Anypoint MQ supports environments, business groups, and role-based access control (RBAC) with enterprise-grade functionality.
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