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NSQ

A realtime distributed messaging platform.

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NSQ is a distributed messaging platform designed for fault tolerance and high availability, with reliable message delivery. It scales horizontally without centralized brokers, uses built-in discovery for adding nodes, and supports both pub-sub and load-balanced delivery. It ships with an admin UI, has no runtime dependencies in its binaries, and offers pre-compiled releases for linux, darwin, freebsd and windows plus an official Docker image. Official Go and Python client libraries are available alongside community libraries for most major languages, and a protocol spec is provided for building your own.

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Ranked by how well each tool replaces NSQ: shared features, audience, price and popularity.

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    Covers 7 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

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    Covers 2 of 15 key features.

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    Covers 1 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

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    Covers 6 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

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    Covers 5 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

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  10. Eclipse Mosquitto

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    Covers 4 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

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    Covers 5 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

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    Covers 2 of 15 key features and has a free plan.

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