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by rabbitmq 5496 days ago
If you want to know what motivated the creation of RabbitMQ please read chapter 1 of Jason and Alvaro's book, "RabbitMQ in Action" - http://www.manning.com/videla/Videla_MEAPCH01.pdf

RabbitMQ's main motivation has been to make it easier to join systems together, scale your applications and manage complex environments. That is what messaging is for. Back in 2006, we felt there was a need for a good, stable and scalable open source licensed product that could compete with the incumbents.

Notice that I did not mention performance. RabbitMQ has good performance and it is used quite a lot in finance, but the majority of users are what you might categorise as "anyone using MySQL or Postgres".

Re activemq vs zeromq, I recommend reading "broker vs brokerless" on our blog.

Hope this helps.

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