2017/04/03 by Vineet John, Xia Liu, John, Vineet +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #68M14 #C.1.4 #Caching and Content Delivery #Cloud Computing and Resource Management #Distributed #Distributed systems and fault tolerance #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Parallel #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1704.00411
openalex publication_date 2017/04/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper surveys the message brokers that are in vogue today for distributed communication. Their primary goal is to facilitate the construction of decentralized topologies without single points of failure, enabling fault tolerance and high availability. These characteristics make them optimal for usage within distributed architectures. However, there are multiple protocols built to achieve this, and it would be beneficial to have a empirical comparison between their features and performance to determine their real-world applicability. This paper focuses on two popular protocols (Kafka and AMQP) and explores the divergence in their features as well as their performance under varied testing workloads.