Cloud Native Messaging System — NATS (Part -3)

NATS Comparison to Kafka, Rabbit, gRPC, and others

This feature comparison is a summary of a few of the major components in several of the popular messaging technologies of today. This is by no means an exhaustive list and each technology should be investigated thoroughly to decide which will work best for your implementation.

In this comparison, we will be featuring NATS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache Pulsar, and gRPC.

Language and Platform Coverage

Built-in Patterns

Delivery Guarantees

Multi-tenancy and Sharing

AuthN

AuthZ

Message Retention and Persistence

High Availability and Fault Tolerance

Deployment

Monitoring

Management

Integrations

References

1. https://docs.cloudera.com/HDPDocuments/HDF3/HDF-3.1.0/bk_planning-your-deployment/content/ch_hardware-sizing.html
2. https://pulsar.apache.org/docs/v1.21.0-incubating/deployment/cluster/
3. https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem
4. https://docs.nats.io/