Apache RocketMQ
Apache RocketMQ is a cloud native messaging and streaming platform, making it simple to build event-driven applications. observed · 2026-10-07
Health v2 · maintenance only
88/100
- Activity 98
- Release rhythm 67
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 107
- age_days: 3611
- days_rel: 61
- days_push: 17
- n_releases_24m: 6
Adoption not part of the score
22629 stars · 12029 forks observed · 2026-10-07
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-10-12, confidence 0.98
Apache RocketMQ is a distributed, cloud‑native messaging and streaming platform that provides low‑latency, high‑throughput communication. It supports multiple protocols, transactional messages, and a rich ecosystem of client libraries.
Use cases
- build reliable event‑driven architectures with high throughput
- implement financial‑grade transactional messaging pipelines
- stream large volumes of data for real‑time analytics
- manage millions of lightweight topics for AI agent sessions
- integrate heterogeneous systems via MQTT, gRPC, JMS, or OpenMessaging
When to choose
- you need ultra‑low latency and high reliability at trillion‑message scale
- your application requires transactional guarantees and ordered delivery
- you want a cloud‑native solution with built‑in HA, scaling, and Kubernetes support
- multiple programming languages need to produce and consume messages
When to avoid
- you only need a simple in‑process queue or lightweight embedded broker
- resource constraints prevent running a full distributed cluster
- your workload does not require the advanced streaming or transactional features
Facets
service · maturity active
message-queue streaming rpc cloud-computing windows cloud ai-native trillion-scale transactional-messaging high-availability multi-language-clients fault-tolerant distributed data-engineering messaging linux macos docker kubernetes
9 sources
- readme: https://github.com/apache/rocketmq · fetched 2026-10-07 · 508778616b8f
- homepage: https://rocketmq.apache.org/ · fetched 2026-09-28 · 7862d46a5003
- site_page: https://rocketmq.apache.org/docs · fetched 2026-09-28 · 27d6b73aaabb
- site_page: https://rocketmq.apache.org/docs/4.x · fetched 2026-09-28 · 2a1e93a88c01
- site_page: https://rocketmq.apache.org/docs/contributionGuide/01how-to-contribute · fetched 2026-09-28 · 5a3ed2959dfd
- site_page: https://rocketmq.apache.org/docs/quickStart/01quickstart · fetched 2026-09-28 · 04da2e35b443
- site_page: https://rocketmq.apache.org/docs/domainModel/01main · fetched 2026-09-28 · 7c30e7e163e1
- site_page: https://rocketmq.apache.org/docs/security/01security · fetched 2026-09-28 · c1d8fec9952f
- site_page: https://rocketmq.apache.org/release-notes · fetched 2026-09-28 · 59b397768973
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| apache/rocketmq | main | 88 |
| apache/rocketmq-spring | sdk | 78 |
| apache/rocketmq-client-go | sdk | 56 |
| apache/rocketmq-dashboard | plugin | 67 |
| apache/rocketmq-docker | infra | 66 |
| apache/rocketmq-clients | sdk | 92 |
| apache/rocketmq-client-cpp | sdk | 56 |
| apache/rocketmq-client-python | sdk | 56 |
| apache/rocketmq-client-nodejs | sdk | 56 |
| apache/rocketmq-flink | plugin | 86 |
| apache/rocketmq-site | docs | 75 |
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