Comparing RabbitMQ with other message brokers

It is not uncommon that when it comes to choosing a message broker for your system, you may not choose RabbitMQ as a proper solution without any comparison with other message brokers. Although RabbitMQ is a great technology, it can turn out that there is a better message broker (either in turns of features or performance) based on your requirements. For this reason, you can benchmark RabbitMQ against other message brokers such as Qpid, ActiveMQ, ZeroMQ, HornetMQ, and Kafka, just to name a few. For this, you can follow the approach provided by the PerfTest tool and build a wrapper utility (that can abstract PerfTest for RabbitMQ) that allows you to produce and consume messages of different numbers and ...

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