Best Message Queue Software for Apache Kafka

Compare the Top Message Queue Software that integrates with Apache Kafka as of July 2025

This a list of Message Queue software that integrates with Apache Kafka. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Apache Kafka. View the products that work with Apache Kafka in the table below.

What is Message Queue Software for Apache Kafka?

Message queue software is a system that enables asynchronous communication between different software applications or services by managing the transmission of messages in a queue format. These platforms help decouple the components of a system, allowing them to communicate efficiently without requiring direct interaction. Message queue software is often used in distributed systems, microservices architectures, and event-driven systems, where it ensures that messages are delivered reliably, even in the event of service downtime or system failures. It typically includes features such as message persistence, prioritization, retry mechanisms, and scaling capabilities to handle high volumes of data. Compare and read user reviews of the best Message Queue software for Apache Kafka currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    HiveMQ

    HiveMQ

    HiveMQ

    HiveMQ empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of their data with the most trusted edge-to-cloud IoT data streaming platform. Built on MQTT’s publish/subscribe architecture for seamless and flexible integration across operational technology (OT) assets and information technology (IT) applications, HiveMQ ensures businesses can efficiently connect, stream, and govern their data in real-time. With a focus on reliability, scalability, and security, HiveMQ helps organizations get their data AI-ready—enabling advanced analytics, predictive maintenance, and digital transformation. Leading brands like Audi, BMW, Liberty Global, Mercedes-Benz, Siemens, and Eli Lilly trust HiveMQ to modernize their operations, accelerate innovation, and create smarter, data-driven experiences. Visit hivemq.com to learn more.
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    Ably

    Ably

    Ably

    Ably is the definitive realtime experience platform. We power more WebSocket connections than any other pub/sub platform, serving over a billion devices monthly. Businesses like HubSpot, NASCAR and Webflow trust us to power their critical applications - reliably, securely and at serious scale. Ably’s products place composable realtime in the hands of developers. Simple APIs and SDKs for every tech stack, enable the creation of a host of live experiences - including chat, collaboration, notifications, broadcast and fan engagement. All powered by our scalable infrastructure.
    Starting Price: $49.99/month
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    Pro Edition for Eclipse Mosquitto
    Pro Edition for Eclipse Mosquitto is a pro version of the world's #1 MQTT broker that quickly, stably, and reliably transmits data between IoT devices. Compared to the popular open-source version, our product offers professional MQTT broker and client administration and monitoring, MQTT High Availability, MQTT and REST API access, improved reliability, enhanced security, and professional support, making it an ideal solution for commercial use. Functionality highlights: Leverages Mosquitto Management Center to manage MQTT broker instances and clusters from a single interface. Ensures MQTT High Availability, making your solution available 24h. Ensures security through the use of client certificates and custom certificate authorities, application tokens with role-based access and expiry dates, and the use of the native Dynamic Security plugin to control access rights. Enables MQTT API and REST API to automate workflows and facilitate further integration with third-party systems.
    Starting Price: €23 per month
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    PubSub+ Platform
    Solace PubSub+ Platform helps enterprises design, deploy and manage event-driven systems across hybrid and multi-cloud and IoT environments so they can be more event-driven and operate in real-time. The PubSub+ Platform includes the powerful PubSub+ Event Brokers, event management capabilities with PubSub+ Event Portal, as well as monitoring and integration capabilities all available via a single cloud console. PubSub+ allows easy creation of an event mesh, an interconnected network of event brokers, allowing for seamless and dynamic data movement across highly distributed network environments. PubSub+ Event Brokers can be deployed as fully managed cloud services, self-managed software in private cloud or on-premises environments, or as turnkey hardware appliances for unparalleled performance and low TCO. PubSub+ Event Portal is a complimentary toolset for design and governance of event-driven systems including both Solace and Kafka-based event broker environments.
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    StreamNative

    StreamNative

    StreamNative

    StreamNative redefines streaming infrastructure by seamlessly integrating Kafka, MQ, and other protocols into a single, unified platform, providing unparalleled flexibility and efficiency for modern data processing needs. StreamNative offers a unified solution that adapts to the diverse requirements of streaming and messaging in a microservices-driven environment. By providing a comprehensive and intelligent approach to messaging and streaming, StreamNative empowers organizations to navigate the complexities and scalability of the modern data ecosystem with efficiency and agility. Apache Pulsar’s unique architecture decouples the message serving layer from the message storage layer to deliver a mature cloud-native data-streaming platform. Scalable and elastic to adapt to rapidly changing event traffic and business needs. Scale-up to millions of topics with architecture that decouples computing and storage.
    Starting Price: $1,000 per month
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    Red Hat AMQ
    ​Red Hat AMQ is a flexible messaging platform that delivers information reliably, enabling real-time integration and connecting the Internet of Things (IoT). Based on open source communities like Apache ActiveMQ and Apache Kafka, it supports various messaging patterns to integrate applications, endpoints, and devices quickly and efficiently, enhancing enterprise responsiveness and agility. AMQ facilitates data sharing between microservices and other applications with high throughput and low latency. AMQ supports connectivity from client programs written in multiple languages. It defines an open-wire protocol for messaging interoperability, allowing enterprises to deploy various distributed messaging solutions to meet evolving business requirements. Backed by Red Hat's award-winning support and services, AMQ has a track record of supporting mission-critical applications.
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    meshIQ

    meshIQ

    meshIQ

    Middleware Observability & Management Software for Messaging, Event Processing, and Streaming Across Hybrid Cloud (MESH). - Complete observability and monitoring of Integration MESH with 360° Situational Awareness® - Securely manage, and automate configuration, administration, and deployment - Track, trace, and analyze transactions, messages and flows - Collect, monitor, and benchmark MESH performance meshIQ delivers granular access controls to manage configurations across the MESH to reduce downtime and quick recovery from outages. Provides the ability to find, browse, track, and trace messages to detect bottlenecks and speeding up root-cause analysis. Unlocks the integration blackbox to deliver visibility across the MESH infrastructure to visualize, analyze, report, and predict. Delivers the ability to trigger automated actions based on pre-defined criteria or intelligent actions determined by AI/ML.
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    IBM Event Streams
    IBM Event Streams is a fully managed event streaming platform built on Apache Kafka, designed to help enterprises process and respond to real-time data streams. With capabilities for machine learning integration, high availability, and secure cloud deployment, it enables organizations to create intelligent applications that react to events as they happen. The platform supports multi-cloud environments, disaster recovery, and geo-replication, making it ideal for mission-critical workloads. IBM Event Streams simplifies building and scaling real-time, event-driven solutions, ensuring data is processed quickly and efficiently.
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    MigratoryData

    MigratoryData

    MigratoryData

    Enterprises running real-time web and mobile apps struggle with latency, bandwidth, and scalability issues, which negatively impact the total cost of ownership as well as the real-time experience of their users. These issues are inherent to the traditional techniques, such as HTTP polling or long polling, employed to achieve real-time communication using web and application servers. To overcome these issues, we created MigratoryData, a real-time messaging technology leveraging the WebSockets standard, streaming data to and from users over persistent WebSocket connections in milliseconds and with minimal traffic overhead. Unlike other real-time messaging technologies, MigratoryData has been designed to scale to a large number of users. It has been benchmarked to stream real-time data to 10 million concurrent users from a single commodity server.
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    Baidu Messaging System
    Baidu Messaging System (BMS) is a distributed and scalable hosting message queue service with high throughputs. It collects massive data from websites, devices, or applications for real-time analysis, such as user browsing, clicks, and searches. BMS is a hosted service based on Apache Kafka. Kafka is a distributed, multi-partition, and multi-replica messaging service. The producer asynchronously interacts with the consumer through the message queue without waiting for each other. Compared with the traditional messaging service. BMS encapsulates the Kafka cluster details and provides them in the form of a hosted service. You can directly use BMS to integrate with massively distributed applications without the consideration of cluster operations and pay-per-use only.
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