Audience
Application Developers searching for a cloud-native message and event stream fusion processing platform to easily build event-driven programs
About Apache RocketMQ
Apache RocketMQ™ is a unified messaging engine, lightweight data processing platform. Financial-grade stability, widely used in transaction core links. Seamless connection to surrounding ecosystems such as microservices, real-time computing, and data lakes. Configurable, low-code way to integrate data, can establish connection with any system, can be used to build streaming ETL, data pipeline, data lake, etc. Stream computing engine that provides light weight, high scalability, high performance and rich functions. Rich message type support and message governance methods to meet serverless application scenarios with message granularity load balancing. Apache RocketMQ has been widely adopted by many enterprise developers and cloud vendors due to its simple architecture, rich business functions, and strong scalability.
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Company Information
Apache Software Foundation
Founded: 1999
United States
rocketmq.apache.org
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Platforms Supported
Cloud
Windows
Mac
Linux
Training
Documentation
Apache RocketMQ Frequently Asked Questions
Apache RocketMQ Product Features
Message Queue
Asynchronous Communications Protocol
Data Error Reduction
Message Encryption
On-Premise Installation
Roles / Permissions
Storage / Retrieval / Deletion
System Decoupling