Does RabbitMQ support hash partition like Kafka?

Question

I have a RabbitMQ with multiple consumers subscribed on a single queue. And I want the messages with same hash key can be consumed by the same consumer for each time. I know the default behavior for RabbitMQ is loop through all consumers and dispatch the message 1 by 1.

Does it have the same ability like Kafka partition?

Thanks

Answer 1

Well not exactly but a very close one .

You need to use RabbitMQ Consistent Hash Exchange Type which is available by adding the rabbitmq-consistent-hash-exchange plugin. It adds a consistent-hash exchange type to RabbitMQ. This exchange type uses consistent hashing to distribute messages between the bound queues. It is recommended to get a basic understanding of the concept before evaluating this plugin and its alternatives.