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What is MQTT?

What is MQTT?#

  • Open-source
  • Pub-sub messaging
  • No queues
  • designed for resource constrained devices (low bandwidth and high latency - satellite and dial up)
  • unreliable networks
  • Security: TLS
  • created from the Tech Industry
  • Not layered: extensions require new implementations of clients and servers
  • QOS (Quality of Service): At most once (0), at least once (1) and Exactly once (2)

What is AMQP?#

  • open-source
  • Security: TLS and SASL (Simple Authentication Security Layer)
  • created from the Finance Industry
  • Layered: extensions are backward compatible
  • QOS (Quality of Service): At most once (0), at least once (1) and Exactly once (2)

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