What is Ejabberd?
ejabberd is a robust, scalable and extensible XMPP server that can be used to create custom instant messaging and chat applications. Here is an overview of its key features and capabilities:
- Open-source - ejabberd is licensed under GPL and available free of charge with full source code.
- High performance - Built with Erlang/OTP platform, it can handle a large number of concurrent connections and scale to thousands or millions of users.
- Extensibility - ejabberd has a modular architecture and extensive API, allowing developers to extend its functionality with custom modules and plugins.
- Standards compliance - It implements core XMPP specs and key extensions like multi-user chat (MUC), publish-subscribe (PubSub) and proxy protocols.
- Administration - ejabberd offers admin tools and interfaces like ejabberdctl CLI, GUI admin panel and REST API for easy server control and monitoring.
- Security - Encrypted connections, authentication, access controls and other essential security mechanisms are built-in.
- Database support - Storage abstraction layer allows using different DBs like MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite etc.
With robustness & extensibility built into its core, ejabberd is ideal for companies to create secure & customizable XMPP chat solutions.