Amazon Simple Queue Service vs Apache Pulsar

Amazon Simple Queue Service

Description: Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. SQS offers a reliable, highly scalable, hosted queue for storing messages in transit between computers.

Type: software

Apache Pulsar

Description: Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system originally created by Yahoo and now under the Apache Software Foundation. It is horizontally scalable, provides low latency and durable storage for messages.

Type: software

Pricing: Free

Amazon Simple Queue Service Features

• Message queuing and processing
• Decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications
• Reliable - Deliver messages at least once, keeps messages for up to 14 days
• Scalable - Automatically scales as your system load increases
• Hosted - Fully managed, no servers to provision or manage
• Accessible via REST APIs or SDKs for easy integration

Apache Pulsar Features

• Multi-tenancy
• Geo-replication
• Automatic data partitioning
• Tiered storage
• Low publish latency
• Guaranteed message delivery
• Multiple subscription modes

Amazon Simple Queue Service

• Not listed

Apache Pulsar

• Free