# What is the difference between Kafka and ActiveMQ?

What is the difference between Kafka and ActiveMQ?

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- Posted at: about 3 years ago
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## Comments
### Comment 1

Kafka is based on a publish-subscribe messaging model, where messages are written to topics and subscribers can consume messages from those topics. It is designed for high-throughput, fault-tolerant, and distributed streaming scenarios. ActiveMQ, on the other hand, supports multiple messaging models, including point-to-point (queues) and publish-subscribe (topics). It provides more flexibility in choosing the messaging model based on application requirements.

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- Posted at: almost 3 years ago
- Author title: Senior Siebel Consultant at iOCO




## Related Product
[Apache ActiveMQ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-activemq/reviews)

## Related Category
[Message Queue (MQ)](https://www.g2.com/categories/message-queue-mq)

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