2 posts tagged with "MQTT"

Native MQTT released in RabbitMQ 3.12 has delivered substantial scalability and performance improvements for IoT use cases.

RabbitMQ 3.13 will support MQTT 5.0 and will therefore be the next big step in our journey to make RabbitMQ one of the leading MQTT brokers.

This blog post explains how the new MQTT 5.0 features are used in RabbitMQ.

RabbitMQ's core protocol has been AMQP 0.9.1. To support MQTT, STOMP, and AMQP 1.0, the broker transparently proxies via its core protocol. While this is a simple way to extend RabbitMQ with support for more messaging protocols, it degrades scalability and performance.

In the last 9 months, we re-wrote the MQTT plugin to not proxy via AMQP 0.9.1 anymore. Instead, the MQTT plugin parses MQTT messages and sends them directly to queues. This is what we call Native MQTT.

The results are spectacular:

1. Memory usage drops by up to 95% and hundreds of GBs with many connections.
2. For the first time ever, RabbitMQ is able to handle millions of connections.
3. End-to-end latency drops by 50% - 70%.
4. Throughput increases by 30% - 40%.

Native MQTT turns RabbitMQ into an MQTT broker opening the door for a broader set of IoT use cases.

Native MQTT ships in RabbitMQ 3.12.