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Message queue and Message broker differences

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Is MQ a message broker?

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers on AWS.

What is a message broker and its major role in message queue service?

A message broker (also known as an integration broker or interface engine) is an intermediary computer program module that translates a message from the formal messaging protocol of the sender to the formal messaging protocol of the receiver.

What are the different types of message queue?

The system has different types of message queues: workstation message queue, user profile message queue, job message queue, system operator message queue, and history log message queue.

What is message broker in Kafka?

What is Apache Kafka? Kafka is a message bus developed for high-ingress data replay and streams. Kafka is a durable message broker that enables applications to process, persist, and re-process streamed data. Kafka has a straightforward routing approach that uses a routing key to send messages to a topic.


A message queue is a data structure, or a container - a way to hold messages for eventual consumption. A message broker is a separate component that manages queues.


A message broker (also know a service bus) is a piece of middleware responsible with persisting and routing of message while allowing you to decouple your system into smaller parts. A message queue is a part of a message broker and is just a persistence mechanism.