| RabbitMQ | Kafka |
| Variation of Pub-Sub, Request-Response & Point-to-Point patterns. | Pub-Sub for streaming platforms |
| Smartk Broker Model | Smart Consumer Model |
| Can ba synchronous/asynchronous | Durable message store |
| Push based approach | Pull based approach |
| Prioritize messages | Order/Retain/Guarantee messages |
| Decoupled consumer queues | Coupled consumer partition/groups |
| Use RabbitMQ when | Use Kafka when |
| No event replay | Replay |
| No clear picture of E2E architecture | Streaming |
| No producer changes for consumer additions | High throughput |
| Language agnostic microservices architecture | |
| RabbitMQ | Kafak |
| Queues are single threaded | Storage overheads |
| Compllex with more brokers | Streaming API for specific languages |
| No events replay | Ordering per partition |
| No native streaming support | Needs producer coordination with consumer for partition increases |
docker run -d -p 5672:5672 rabbitmq
version: '3'
services:
rabbitmq:
image: 'rabbitmq:3-management-alpine'
container_name: rabbitmq-stream
ports:
- "5672:5672"
- "15672:15672"
environment:
RABBITMQ_ERLANG_COOKIE: "RabbitMQ-My-Cookies"
RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_USER: "admin"
RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_PASS: "admin"