apache/rocketmq
Apache RocketMQ is a cloud native messaging and streaming platform, making it simple to build event-driven applications. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
90/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 74
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 119.0
- age_days: 3563
- days_rel: 13
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 7
Adoption not part of the score
22570 stars · 11996 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Apache RocketMQ is a distributed cloud-native messaging and streaming platform built for low-latency, high-throughput, financially reliable event-driven applications. Version 5.x adds AI-native capabilities such as million-scale LiteTopics for agent session management, batch consumption, and fine-grained flow control.
Use cases
- build event-driven microservices with publish/subscribe messaging
- process financial-grade transactional messages with exactly-once semantics
- stream events between big data pipelines and analytics systems
- manage AI agent session state and multi-agent communication at scale
- decouple services asynchronously with ordered and scheduled messages
- self-host a Kafka alternative with message tracing and a dashboard
When to choose
- you need trillion-scale message capacity with low latency and high reliability
- you require transactional, ordered, or retroactive messaging in one platform
- you want MQTT, gRPC, and JMS protocol support from a single broker
- you are orchestrating long-running AI agent sessions that must survive disconnects
When to avoid
- you only need simple fire-and-forget queues where Redis or RabbitMQ suffices
- your team is JVM-averse since the broker and tooling are Java-based
- you need a fully managed service and cannot operate a distributed cluster
- you rely on Kafka's ecosystem of stream processing connectors exclusively
Facets
service · maturity stable
message-queue streaming rpc auth authorization monitoring rate-limiting microservices big-data cloud-computing windows jvm self-hosted cloud event-driven pub-sub transactional-messaging mqtt grpc apache-project ai-native lite-topic session-management messaging real-time ai-agents linux macos docker kubernetes
9 sources
- readme: https://github.com/apache/rocketmq · fetched 2026-08-28 · 508778616b8f
- homepage: https://rocketmq.apache.org/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7862d46a5003
- site_page: https://rocketmq.apache.org/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 27d6b73aaabb
- site_page: https://rocketmq.apache.org/docs/4.x · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2a1e93a88c01
- site_page: https://rocketmq.apache.org/docs/contributionGuide/01how-to-contribute · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5a3ed2959dfd
- site_page: https://rocketmq.apache.org/docs/quickStart/01quickstart · fetched 2026-08-29 · 04da2e35b443
- site_page: https://rocketmq.apache.org/docs/domainModel/01main · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7c30e7e163e1
- site_page: https://rocketmq.apache.org/docs/security/01security · fetched 2026-08-29 · c1d8fec9952f
- site_page: https://rocketmq.apache.org/release-notes · fetched 2026-08-29 · 59b397768973
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| apache/rocketmq | main | 90 |
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