An experimental comparison of ActiveMQ and OpenMQ brokers in asynchronous cloud environment

Abstract

The main focus of this work is to experimentally determine the performance, message persistence and scalability options of ActiveMQ - a message broker that provides an implementation of JMS specification with OpenMQ (another JMS broker). A comparative analysis is done between both ActiveMQ and OpenMQ JMS message brokers using the same tools and configuration parameters. The outcome of this work is used for selecting the broker that manages high volume of traffics in a busy cloud environment. It is worth mentioning that the experiments are conducted in real physical cloud environments and no simulations are used to verify the results.