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We continue to see instability in Azure Service Bus and are looking for alternatives. Ideally we would like something we can run locally in a Windows 2012 R2 domain and has many of the same feature sets as Azure SB. We have taken a look at the Service Bus For Windows 1.1 however that product has not been updated in a while and we are not sure about its future. We use C# so ideally there would be a client API/wrapper that would make the integration with our existing application relatively easy. Open source and free software is totally acceptable. :-)
Background In the couple of weeks we have had SB go down in the datacenter we have chosen to host our queues. We have moved to another datacenter and it too has issues every once in a while. The issues typically last anywhere from 2 min to almost an entire day and eventually Microsoft gets them running again.
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The Kafka Connect Azure Service Bus connector is a multi-tenant cloud messaging service you can use to send information between applications and services. The Azure Service Bus Source connector reads data from a Azure Service Bus queue or topic and persists the data in a Kafka topic.
There is no direct equivalent to Azure Service Bus, but it can be replaced by combining SQS and SNS.
Azure Service Bus is an enterprise queueing solution and can replace RabbitMQ if you want to take advantage of the PaaS offering instead of running RabbitMQ yourself.
Service Bus allows the subscribers to consume the messages at their own rate as opposed to Event Grid which pushes the events to the subscribers causing exceptions if the rate of event push is more than the rate at which the Subscriber processes the message.
I would recommend exploring RabbitMQ with MassTransit as an API, or NServiceBus (which is commercial)
RabbitMQ is a message broker that supports multiple transport layers (such as HTTP, AMQP, and STOMP among others) has feature parity with Azure service bus, however it is not cloud based, and you will need to host it on some infrastructure and support it, but it is robust and supports clustering and federation.
RabbitMQ is open source. Both free and commercial versions available. Has paid support.
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