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Apache RocketMQ is a distributed messaging and streaming platform with low latency, high performance and reliability, trillion-level capacity and flexible scalability.
It offers a variety of features:
Messaging patterns including publish/subscribe, request/reply and streaming
Financial grade transactional message
Built-in fault tolerance and high availability configuration options based on DLedger Controller
Built-in message tracing capability, also supports opentracing
Versatile big-data and streaming ecosystem integration
Message retroactivity by time or offset
Reliable FIFO and strict ordered messaging in the same queue
Efficient pull and push consumption model
Million-level message accumulation capacity in a single queue
Multiple messaging protocols like gRPC, MQTT, JMS and OpenMessaging
Various message filter mechanics such as SQL and Tag
Docker images for isolated testing and cloud isolated clusters
Feature-rich administrative dashboard for configuration, metrics and monitoring
Authentication and authorization
Free open source connectors, for both sources and sinks
Lightweight real-time computing
Quick Start
This paragraph guides you through steps of installing RocketMQ in different ways.
For local development and testing, only one instance will be created for each component.
Run RocketMQ locally
RocketMQ runs on all major operating systems and requires only a Java JDK version 8 or higher to be installed.
To check, run java -version:
$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_121"
For Windows users, click here to download the 5.5.1 RocketMQ binary release,
unpack it to your local disk, such as D:\rocketmq.
For macOS and Linux users, execute following commands:
# Download release from the Apache mirror
$ wget https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/rocketmq/5.5.1/rocketmq-all-5.5.1-bin-release.zip
# Unpack the release
$ unzip rocketmq-all-5.5.1-bin-release.zip
Prepare a terminal and change to the extracted bin directory:
$ cd rocketmq-all-5.5.1-bin-release/bin
1) Start NameServer
NameServer will be listening at 0.0.0.0:9876, make sure that the port is not used by others on the local machine, and then do as follows.
For macOS and Linux users:
### start Name Server
$ nohup sh mqnamesrv &
### check whether Name Server is successfully started
$ tail -f ~/logs/rocketmqlogs/namesrv.log
The Name Server boot success...
For Windows users, you need to set environment variables first:
From the desktop, right click the Computer icon.
Choose Properties from the context menu.
Click the Advanced system settings link.
Click Environment Variables.
Add Environment ROCKETMQ_HOME="D:\rocketmq".
Then change directory to rocketmq, type and run:
$ mqnamesrv.cmd
The Name Server boot success...
2) Start Broker
For macOS and Linux users:
### start Broker
$ nohup sh mqbroker -n localhost:9876 &
### check whether Broker is successfully started, eg: Broker's IP is 192.168.1.2, Broker's name is broker-a
$ tail -f ~/logs/rocketmqlogs/broker.log
The broker[broker-a, 192.168.1.2:10911] boot success...
For Windows users:
$ mqbroker.cmd -n localhost:9876
The broker[broker-a, 192.168.1.2:10911] boot success...
Run RocketMQ in Docker
You can run RocketMQ on your own machine within Docker containers,
host network will be used to expose listening port in the container.
1) Start NameServer
$ docker run -it --net=host apache/rocketmq ./mqnamesrv
You can also run a RocketMQ cluster within a Kubernetes cluster using RocketMQ Operator.
Before your operations, make sure that kubectl and related kubeconfig file installed on your machine.
1) Install CRDs
### install CRDs
$ git clone https://github.com/apache/rocketmq-operator
$ cd rocketmq-operator && make deploy
### check whether CRDs are successfully installed
$ kubectl get crd | grep rocketmq.apache.org
brokers.rocketmq.apache.org 2022-05-12T09:23:18Z
consoles.rocketmq.apache.org 2022-05-12T09:23:19Z
nameservices.rocketmq.apache.org 2022-05-12T09:23:18Z
topictransfers.rocketmq.apache.org 2022-05-12T09:23:19Z
### check whether operator is running
$ kubectl get pods | grep rocketmq-operator
rocketmq-operator-6f65c77c49-8hwmj 1/1 Running 0 93s
2) Create Cluster Instance
### create RocketMQ cluster resource
$ cd example && kubectl create -f rocketmq_v1alpha1_rocketmq_cluster.yaml
### check whether cluster resources are running
$ kubectl get sts
NAME READY AGE
broker-0-master 1/1 107m
broker-0-replica-1 1/1 107m
name-service 1/1 107m
Apache RocketMQ Community
RocketMQ Streams: A lightweight stream computing engine based on Apache RocketMQ.
RocketMQ Flink: The Apache RocketMQ connector of Apache Flink that supports source and sink connector in data stream and Table.
RocketMQ Spring: A project which helps developers quickly integrate Apache RocketMQ with Spring Boot.
RocketMQ Exporter: An Apache RocketMQ exporter for Prometheus.
RocketMQ Operator: Providing a way to run an Apache RocketMQ cluster on Kubernetes.
RocketMQ Docker: The Git repo of the Docker Image for Apache RocketMQ.
RocketMQ Dashboard: Operation and maintenance console of Apache RocketMQ.
RocketMQ Connect: A tool for scalably and reliably streaming data between Apache RocketMQ and other systems.
RocketMQ MQTT: A new MQTT protocol architecture model, based on which Apache RocketMQ can better support messages from terminals such as IoT devices and Mobile APP.
RocketMQ EventBridge: EventBridge makes it easier to build an event-driven application.
RocketMQ Incubating Community Projects: Incubator community projects of Apache RocketMQ, including logappender, rocketmq-ansible, rocketmq-beats-integration, rocketmq-cloudevents-binding, etc.
RocketMQ Site: The repository for Apache RocketMQ website.
RocketMQ E2E: A project for testing Apache RocketMQ, including end-to-end, performance, compatibility tests.
We always welcome new contributions, whether for trivial cleanups, big new features or other material rewards, more details see here.
License
Apache License, Version 2.0 Copyright (C) Apache Software Foundation
Export Control Notice
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restrictions on the import, possession, use, and/or re-export to another country, of encryption software.
BEFORE using any encryption software, please check your country's laws, regulations and policies concerning
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The U.S. Government Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), has classified this
software as Export Commodity Control Number (ECCN) 5D002.C.1, which includes information security software
using or performing cryptographic functions with asymmetric algorithms. The form and manner of this Apache
Software Foundation distribution makes it eligible for export under the License Exception ENC Technology
Software Unrestricted (TSU) exception (see the BIS Export Administration Regulations, Section 740.13) for
both object code and source code.
The following provides more details on the included cryptographic software:
This software uses Apache Commons Crypto (https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-crypto/) to
support authentication, and encryption and decryption of data sent across the network between
services.
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Is apache/rocketmq open source?
Yes — apache/rocketmq ships under the Apache-2.0 license, which makes its source code freely readable (and, depending on license terms, forkable and reusable). Source: github.com/apache/rocketmq.
What license does apache/rocketmq use?
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What topics is apache/rocketmq associated with?
GitHub's repository topics for apache/rocketmq: "cloud-native", "eventing", "hacktoberfest", "java", "messaging", "rocketmq", "streaming". TopGit's editorial category is Frontend.
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