Feedback about ActiveMQ. How about it? Is it worth?

Question

Hi,

we are evaluating ActiveMQ and I whould like to know what you think about it. Any feedback is welcome.

EDIT:

actually, I need to know things like: how does it scale? What about stability? Is it stable enough for production environments? Memory consumption, etc.

Answer 1

Let's narrow your question. What would you like to know? How exactly are you evaluating it? Without some indication of what you're seeking, your question is quite broad.

Bruce

Answer 2

Your asking for opinions, it seems, so here's mine. I've used ActiveMQ several times in the past, and always regretted it. It's buggy, unstable and unreliable, and goes for shiny features at the expense of stability.

My advice: avoid it, use something with a better track record, like JBoss Messaging, HornetQ (highly recommended) or OpenMQ.

Answer 3

Here's my opinion & experience, for what its worth.

We have been using ActiveMQ in production for almost 2 years. We did have a couple of issues with ActiveMQ 5.1 that we had work arounds for, but since ActiveMQ 5.3 (we are using SNAPSHOT from July) we have not had any issues and have been happy. Our system pushes an average of 60 msgs/sec through the system with peak volumes > 700 msgs/sec. We run a single active/passive broker pair with persistence journaling via NFS mount to a dedicated NAS device.

--Steven

Answer 4

Its been used in thousands of production environments, some examples are Sabre Holdings (travelocity,lastminute.com,etc),FAA,CERN,JPL, etc - so its proven to be robust and perform:

• Sabre -32k transactions per second - that's reliable performance
• A large retailer (can't name them) - 10k+ stores, all connected with real-time updates over ActiveMQ - that's scalability