Compare the Top Enterprise Message-Oriented Middleware as of June 2025

What is Enterprise Message-Oriented Middleware?

Message-oriented middleware (MOM) is software that provides an interoperable interface between multiple applications. It enables applications to communicate with one another, regardless of their underlying technologies. Applications using MOM can send and receive messages across a variety of networks and transport protocols such as HTTP, TCP/IP, and SMTP. These messages can be either synchronous or asynchronous, allowing for real-time interactions or delayed messaging without the need for complex programming code. MOM also facilitates remote access through a centralized system making it easier to manage in distributed environments. Additionally, since it is independent of the application architecture, MOM offers increased flexibility when integrating different platforms together. Compare and read user reviews of the best Enterprise Message-Oriented Middleware currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    EMQX

    EMQX

    EMQ Technologies

    EMQX is the world's most scalable and reliable MQTT messaging platform designed by EMQ. It supports 100M concurrent IoT device connections per cluster while maintaining extremely high throughput and sub-millisecond latency. EMQX boasts more than 20,000 global users from over 50 countries, connecting more than 100M IoT devices worldwide, and is trusted by over 300 customers in mission-critical IoT scenarios, including well-known brands like HPE, VMware, Verifone, SAIC Volkswagen, and Ericsson. Our edge-to-cloud IoT connectivity solutions are flexible to meet the demands of various industries towards digital transformation, including connected vehicles, Industrial IoT, oil & gas, carrier, finance, smart energy, and smart cities.
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    Starting Price: $0.18 per hour
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    Sashulin Message Broker

    Sashulin Message Broker

    Chongqing Yiji Zhilian Technology Co., Ltd

    Sashulin Message Broker(SMB) is a programmable software message broker that allows applications, systems and services to exchange information and communicate. By using messaging and transformations, "conversations between services" written in different languages and platforms are realized. SMB's capabilities (1). Visual business process orchestration (2). Java programming and debugging (3). Dynamic routing (4). Encapsulation and expansion, you can customize the control; (5). Service containers (6). Cluster deployment (7). Remote control In the medical information industry, based on SMB, we have successfully developed a hospital-wide unified critical value management platform (including 7 subsystems), a hospital-wide message communication platform, and a hospital-wide adverse event reporting platform. These business systems have been applied to 30+ large tertiary hospitals in China.
    Starting Price: $180/year
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    Ably

    Ably

    Ably

    Ably is the definitive realtime experience platform. We power more WebSocket connections than any other pub/sub platform, serving over a billion devices monthly. Businesses like HubSpot, NASCAR and Webflow trust us to power their critical applications - reliably, securely and at serious scale. Ably’s products place composable realtime in the hands of developers. Simple APIs and SDKs for every tech stack, enable the creation of a host of live experiences - including chat, collaboration, notifications, broadcast and fan engagement. All powered by our scalable infrastructure.
    Starting Price: $49.99/month
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    HiveMQ

    HiveMQ

    HiveMQ

    HiveMQ is the most trusted enterprise MQTT platform, purpose-built to connect anything via MQTT, communicate reliably, and control IoT data. The platform can be deployed anywhere, on-premise or in the cloud, giving developers the flexibility and freedom they need to evolve as their IoT deployment grows. HiveMQ is reliable under real-world stress, scales without limits, and provides enterprise-grade security to meet the needs of organizations at any stage of digital transformation. The extensible platform provides seamless connectivity to the leading data streaming, databases, and data analytics platforms, plus offers a custom SDK for a perfect fit in any stack.
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    IBM MQ
    Massive amounts of data move as messages between applications, systems and services at any given time. If an application isn’t ready or if there’s a service interruption, messages and transactions can be lost or duplicated, costing businesses time and money to make things right. IBM has expertly refined IBM MQ over 25 years on the market. With MQ, if a message can’t be delivered immediately, it’s secured in a queue, where it waits until delivery is assured. Where competitors may deliver messages twice or not at all, MQ moves data, including file data, once — and once only. Never lose a message with MQ. IBM MQ is available as software to run in public or private clouds, in containers or on your mainframe. IBM also offers an IBM-managed cloud service (IBM MQ on Cloud) hosted on IBM Cloud or Amazon, and even as a purpose-built Appliance (IBM MQ Appliance) to simplify deployment and maintenance.
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    Red Hat AMQ
    ​Red Hat AMQ is a flexible messaging platform that delivers information reliably, enabling real-time integration and connecting the Internet of Things (IoT). Based on open source communities like Apache ActiveMQ and Apache Kafka, it supports various messaging patterns to integrate applications, endpoints, and devices quickly and efficiently, enhancing enterprise responsiveness and agility. AMQ facilitates data sharing between microservices and other applications with high throughput and low latency. AMQ supports connectivity from client programs written in multiple languages. It defines an open-wire protocol for messaging interoperability, allowing enterprises to deploy various distributed messaging solutions to meet evolving business requirements. Backed by Red Hat's award-winning support and services, AMQ has a track record of supporting mission-critical applications.
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    Axon Server
    Axon Server is freely available to get started quickly and easily. Various other options are available for serious enterprise deployments to give you the assurance and functionality you need. The Enterprise functionality adds SLA-backed support, clustering, monitoring, and integration features to the free Axon Server – ensuring your application is ready for enterprise deployment. Expansion packs are available for security and compliance, global multi-data center deployments, and big-data applications. Microservices systems are often associated with complex configuration management. Setting up service discovery and message routing correctly is a time-consuming and error-prone task. Axon Server eliminates this complexity. Because it’s built for this purpose, it performs service discovery and message routing with zero configuration. It just works.
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    CoreDX DDS

    CoreDX DDS

    Twin Oaks Computing

    CoreDX DDS is an easy-to-use, cross-platform, cross-language Inter-Process Communication (IPC) library. CoreDX DDS is high-performance and low-overhead, with low latency to support real-time control and high message throughput to support high bandwidth data. CoreDX DDS provides secure, robust, flexible, and dynamic data communications. Based on open standards for guaranteed Interoperability and long-term viability, CoreDX DDS is the preferred IPC for a wide variety of distributed software programs, from mobile games and consumer electronic devices to surgical equipment, health care applications, complex DoD systems, and robots working in space. Programmers like CoreDX DDS because it is easy to use and provides many features difficult to implement by hand, and not found in other IPC libraries. With features like integrated end-to-end security, data filtering and storage, data presentation, and event notification options, CoreDX DDS allows programmers to focus on their applications.
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