What are good message queue options for nodejs? [closed]

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you could use redis with the lightning fast node_redis client. It even has built-in pubsub semantics.

You could use the node STOMP client. This would let you integrate with a variety of message queues including:

• ActiveMQ
• RabbitMQ
• HornetQ

I haven't used this library before, so I can't vouch for its quality. But STOMP is a pretty simple protocol so I suspect you can hack it into submission if necessary.

Another option is to use beanstalkd with node. beanstalkd is a very fast "task queue" written in C that is very good if you don't need the feature flexibility of the brokers listed above.

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Here's a couple of recommendations I can make:

node-amqp: A RabbitMQ client that I have successfully used in combination with Socket.IO to make a real-time multi-player game and chat application amongst other things. Seems reliable enough.

zeromq.node: If you want to go down the non-brokered route this might be worth a look. More work to implement functionality but your more likely to get lower latency and higher throughput.

Take a look at node-busmq - it's a production grade, highly available and scalable message bus backed by redis.

I wrote this module for our global cloud and it's currently deployed in our production environment in several datacenters around the world. It supports named queues, peer-to-peer communication, guaranteed delivery and federation.

For more information on why we created this module you can read this blog post: All Aboard The Message Bus

kue is the only message queue you would ever need

I recommend trying Kestrel, it's fast and simple as Beanstalk but supports fanout queues. Speaks memcached. It's built using Scala and used at Twitter.