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Kafka vs. JMS, RabbitMQ, SQS, and Modern Messaging - 2025 Edition

🚀 What’s New in This 2025 Update

Major Updates and Changes

• Kafka Beyond Messaging - Complete event streaming platform
• Cloud-Native First - Managed services dominate deployments
• KRaft Mode - ZooKeeper completely eliminated
• Performance Gap Widened - Kafka processes millions/sec
• Cost Models Evolved - Consumption-based pricing prevalent
• New Competitors - Pulsar, Redpanda, WarpStream emerging

Industry Shifts Since 2017

• ✅ Event Streaming Standard - Kafka dominates real-time data
• ✅ Serverless Integration - Native cloud functions support
• ✅ Multi-Protocol Support - Beyond just publish-subscribe
• ✅ Managed Services - Self-hosting becoming rare

Ready to understand how Kafka compares to modern messaging systems? Let’s explore when to use each technology in today’s architectures.

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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.

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