Kafka vs. JMS
Kafka vs JMS, SQS, RabbitMQ Messaging Is Kafka a queue or a publish and subscribe system? Yes. It can be both. Kafka is like a queue for consumer groups, which we cover later. Basically, Kafka is a queue system per consumer group so it can do load balancing like JMS, RabbitMQ, etc. Kafka is like topics in JMS, RabbitMQ, and other MOM systems for multiple consumer groups. Kafka has topics and producers publish to the topics and the subscribers (Consumer Groups) read from the topics.