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Apache RocketMQ

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Overview

A distributed messaging and streaming data platform offering low latency, high throughput, high reliability, and ultra-large capacity.

Key Features

  • Strict message ordering and transactional message guarantees.

  • Massive topic scalability supporting tens of thousands of topics per cluster.

  • Configurable message delay and scheduled delivery.

  • High availability with automatic failover via DLedger (Raft).

Use Cases

High-volume e-commerce order processing, financial event messaging, and real-time streaming ETL.

Getting Started

Start NameServer (`mqnamesrv`) and Broker (`mqbroker -n localhost:9876`) to publish messages.

Recent Updates

RocketMQ 5.0 introduced stateless proxy architecture and unified stream-message processing.

Did You Know?

Apache RocketMQ is widely utilized across the cloud native and open source ecosystem.