From Zero to Rabbit in 30 Days
wiredcraft.comWow, this is timely. I was just looking at these two yesterday for a distributed computing framework I am building.
After some research I decided to go with RabbitMQ as well, but mainly because of the out-of-the-box support for authentication.
I always thought that just using protocol buffers and ZeroMQ and the speed advantage that buys you over having to go through a broker made it worth just using ZeroMQ.
That speed might not be an advantage. If RabbitMQ is fast enough then why would you pay the price of the more complex ZeroMQ in order to get more speed? In any case, I have built applications that used both RabbitMQ and ZeroMQ for different roles. For instance a bunch of processes using AMQP to communicate about their core work but all of them also use ZeroMQ to report their status to a supervisor process which managed them. And there was a db server that I built which used a ZeroMQ version of the memcache protocol to persist data short term.
ZeroMQ works great but when you need a message queue, be aware that there is NO message queue in ZeroMQ and that is why it is called Zero MQ