10 alternatives to nsq

nsqio/nsq — A realtime distributed messaging platform (25,772 stars, MIT, realtime, integration, infra).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 99 licence-cleared components from nsqio/nsq itself.

The alternatives in detail

• bloomberg/blazingmq
  A modern high-performance open source message queuing system
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 3,219 stars · 1,128 components · search them
• travisjeffery/jocko
  Kafka implemented in Golang with built-in coordination (No ZK dep, single binary install, Cloud Native)
  score 4.4/10 · MIT permissive · 5,005 stars · 93 components · search them
• vernemq/vernemq
  A distributed MQTT message broker based on Erlang/OTP. Built for high quality & Industrial use cases. The VerneMQ mission is active & the project maintained. Thank you for your support!
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 3,643 stars · 14 components · search them
• vmihailenco/taskq
  Golang asynchronous task/job queue with Redis, SQS, IronMQ, and in-memory backends
  score 4.4/10 · BSD-2-Clause permissive · 1,343 stars · 26 components · search them
• hdt3213/delayqueue
  Simple, reliable, installation-free distributed delayed delivery message queue in Go. 简单、可靠、免安装的分布式延时投递消息队列
  score 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 391 stars · 5 components · search them
• rmqtt/rmqtt
  MQTT Server/MQTT Broker - Scalable Distributed MQTT Message Broker for IoT in the 5G Era
  score 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 1,041 stars · 215 components · search them
• clivern/beaver
  💨 A real time messaging system to build a scalable in-app notifications, multiplayer games, chat apps in web and mobile apps.
  score 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 1,585 stars · 24 components · search them
• nats-io/nats-server
  High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.
  score 4.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 20,930 stars · 128 components · search them
• dkron-io/dkron
  Dkron - Distributed, fault tolerant job scheduling system https://dkron.io
  score 4.4/10 · LGPL-3.0 weak-copyleft · 4,740 stars · 114 components · search them
• celery/kombu
  Messaging library for Python.
  score 4.7/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 3,150 stars · 82 components · search them

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