Apache ActiveMQ Reviews & Product Details

The best thing about ActiveMQ is it's easy to integrate with java JMS, and its scaling feature is phenomenal; it can handle significant loads and high availability and is easy to solve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The worst thing about ActiveMQ is that it is not applicable for high loads, and its documentation is not highly readable; it is not appropriate for event streaming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The queue management tool is too good and helps me to communicate among 43 microservices which I developed for one of my clients. It's very fast and convenient to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Compared to Kafka it is not that much robust and fast to process messages. But As it is opensource and easy to available and setup, I have used it and fulfilled my requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-> I have used it when I need queueing support in my application. Although I am new at that time, it is easy to understand, and simple UI manage my things.

-> It is open source, so anyone can use it without paying a penny.

-> It Supports many messaging protocols like MQTT, STOMP, AMQP, TCP, SSL, etc.

-> This messaging broker I have used with Java and REST API, so it is accessible to implements and having a good amount of resources available to take help if you are stuck. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-> I didn't much use of this software as I started using apache Kafka, rabitMQ, but I can say that apache ActiveMQ is simpler than Kafka as Kafka have more features.

-> Sometimes you face delays in message delivery, or sometimes it's failed delivery, so no assurance of delivery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apache ActiveMQ has been a solid workhorse for JMS Message Broker services at our company. We especially like the delayed send feature, something which we don't have when we use Kafka. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unfortunately, Apache ActiveMQ doesn't cluster nicely, so if the broker goes down, there is not a seamless failover to a secondary broker, without losing data. There are some published hacks to work around this, but it is not baked into the product's DNA like other message broker implementations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A perfect solution for comunicate systems with diferents technologies.

You can enqueue requests without overload your main system.

You can adminintrate it with a web interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you have problems, documentation is very poor and it is not very popular. It’s difficult find people that know this software. Operation is similar to other queuing system for easy tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Best thing i like with Apache Active MQ that it supports spring framework. Apache Active MQ is open source. It is a simple and perfect solution to communicate systems with different technologies. Apache Active MQ also provide features like message load balancing and master slave configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing i dislike with Apache Active mq and it is totally open source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's stable and has been there for quite sometime now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's has become legacy and more alternate managed services are available in many cloud providers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It supports multiple languages such as Java, C, C++ , Perl , Python, PHP , C# , Ruby, etc. It has many advanced features such as Composite Destinations, Virtual Destinations, Message Groups, Wildcards. It has Spring framework support as well. Supports multiple transportation protocol such as NIO, UDP, multicast, TCP, SSL, JGroups. I work on java, and from my experience I can say that it is very easy to use. We can use this for parallel processing also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing as such. Everything in ActiveMQ is easy to develop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the ease of use for Apache ActiveMQ. We use this service remotely with many of our customers. For instance, we will have them on the phone and we will have to tell them how to access their queues, and this product is perfect for using remotely. We never feel like it would be easier for the customer if we were in person with them when using this product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think that something that could be updated is a user guide about the difference between deleting and purging queues right on the queues page. This is something that always trips me up, and I wish there were a question mark I could hover over or click on for quick clarification without actually leaving the page I am on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Connection templates that comes with the bundle are pretty useful.

In case you're someone structured and want to create DEV, TEST and PRODUCTION environments in the same box with different ports, the procedure actually works.

It comes with several protocols and you can choose the one you feel more comfortable.

Admin interface is basic but within time intuitive, you can check all messages stuck and reprocess in case you want to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In a year we had to restart the queues 3 times in Production environment as a java memory leak affected us and we couldn't identify what the problem was, so we did the restart thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.