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RabbitMQ

Developer(s)	VMware
Stable release	4.0.5 / December 15, 2024; 13 days ago (2024-12-15)
Repository	github.com/rabbitmq
Written in	Erlang
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	AMQP, message-oriented middleware
License	Mozilla Public License
Website	www.rabbitmq.com

RabbitMQ is an open-source message-broker software (sometimes called message-oriented middleware) that originally implemented the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) and has since been extended with a plug-in architecture to support Streaming Text Oriented Messaging Protocol (STOMP), MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT), and other protocols.

Written in Erlang, the RabbitMQ server is built on the Open Telecom Platform framework for clustering and failover. Client libraries to interface with the broker are available for all major programming languages. The source code is released under the Mozilla Public License.

Since November 2020, there are commercial offerings available of RabbitMQ, for support and enterprise features: "VMware RabbitMQ OVA", "VMware RabbitMQ" and "VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes" (different feature levels) Open-Source RabbitMQ is also packaged by Bitnami and commercially for VMware's Tanzu Application Service.

History

Originally developed by Rabbit Technologies Ltd. which started as a joint venture between LShift and CohesiveFT in 2007, RabbitMQ was acquired in April 2010 by SpringSource, a division of VMware. The project became part of Pivotal Software in May 2013. Which then got acquired back by VMWare in December 2019.

The project consists of:

• The RabbitMQ exchange server
• Gateways for AMQP, HTTP, STOMP, and MQTT protocols
• AMQP client libraries for Java, .NET Framework and Erlang. (AMQP clients for other languages are available from other vendors.)
• A plug-in platform for extensibility, with a predefined collection of supported plug-ins, including:
  • A "Shovel" plug-in that takes care of moving or copying (replicating) messages from one broker to another.
  • A "Federation" plug-in that enables efficient sharing of messages between brokers (at the exchange level).
  • A "Management" plug-in that enables monitoring and control of brokers and clusters of brokers.

Examples

This section gives sample programs written in Python (using the pika package) for sending and receiving messages using a queue.

Sending

The following code fragment establishes a connection, makes sure the recipient queue exists, then sends a message and finally closes the connection.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import pika
connection = pika.BlockingConnection(pika.ConnectionParameters(host="localhost"))
channel = connection.channel()
channel.queue_declare(queue="hello")
channel.basic_publish(exchange="", routing_key="hello", body="Hello World!")
print("  Sent 'Hello World!'")
connection.close()

Receiving

Similarly, the following program receives messages from the queue and prints them on the screen: (Note: This example does not acknowledge receipt of the message.)

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import pika
def callback(ch, method, properties, body):
    print("  Received %r" % body)
connection = pika.BlockingConnection(pika.ConnectionParameters(host="localhost"))
channel = connection.channel()
channel.queue_declare(queue="hello")
print("  Waiting for messages. To exit press Ctrl+C")
channel.basic_consume(queue="hello", on_message_callback=callback)
channel.start_consuming()

End-of-support schedule

See also

• Apache Kafka

References

1. Which protocols does RabbitMQ support?
2. "VMware RabbitMQ". Retrieved 5 May 2023.
3. "RabbitMQ". bitnami.com. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
4. "Launch of RabbitMQ Open Source Enterprise Messaging" (PDF). Press release. February 8, 2007. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
5. "Rabbit Technologies announce acquisition by SpringSource". Press release. April 13, 2010. Archived from the original on April 18, 2010. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
6. "Proudly part of Pivotal". Press release. May 14, 2010. Archived from the original on June 2, 2013. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
7. "VMware Completes Acquisition of Pivotal". VMware News and Stories. 30 December 2019. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
8. "RabbitMQ Release Information". Retrieved 2023-06-10.

Further reading

• Joern Barthel (2009-09-13). "Getting started with AMQP and RabbitMQ". InfoQ.
• Peter Cooper (2009-04-09). "RabbitMQ - A Fast, Reliable Queuing Option for Rubyists". RubyInside.
• RabbitMQ: An Open Source Messaging Broker That Just Works. Google Tech Talks. 2008-09-25.

External links

• Official website

• Erlang (programming language)
• Free software programmed in Erlang
• Message-oriented middleware
• Software using the Mozilla license
• Pivotal Software