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Nov 16, 20211 min
Updated: Jan 10, 2022
The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is an open standard for passing business messages between applications or organizations. It connects systems, feeds business processes with the information they need and reliably transmits onward the instructions that achieve their goals.
Advantages:
Has built-in integrations for TSL and SASL for greater security
Supports many different messaging patterns
Offers three levels of QoS for message deliverability and reliability.
Can be extended very easily.
Has many open-source libraries to make implementation easy
Disadvantages:
Requires higher bandwidth compared to MQTT.
Has bigger messages which means slower transmission speeds.
MQTT is a lightweight, publish-subscribe network protocol that transports messages between devices. The protocol usually runs over TCP/IP, however, any network protocol that provides ordered, lossless, bi-directional connections can support MQTT.
Advantages:
Its lightweight and battery-friendly.
Offers 3 QoS levels to support reliable messaging
Works well over unreliable networks
Allows for security through TLS.
Has Many open-source libraries to ease development and implementation.
Low bandwidth usage.
Disadvantages:
Only supports the publish-subscribe messaging pattern
Not as easily extensible compared to AMQP.
Less built-in security features compared to AMQP.
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