Reliable Message Delivery
Ensure messages reach their intended destination with durable queues, acknowledgements, retry mechanisms, and configurable delivery policies designed for production environments.
Enterprise messaging
Built for Reliable Messaging at Enterprise Scale
HornetMQ is a modern enterprise messaging platform designed to deliver reliable, secure, and high-performance communication between applications, services, devices, and distributed systems. Whether you're connecting cloud-native applications, industrial equipment, microservices, or IoT infrastructure, HornetMQ provides the messaging foundation your systems can depend on.
Open standards. Production-ready architecture. Built for developers and enterprise teams.
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Why HornetMQ
Messaging Is the Foundation of Modern Systems
Modern software rarely exists as a single application. Business platforms are composed of APIs, services, devices, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and edge systems that must exchange information continuously.
As these systems grow, communication becomes increasingly complex. Services fail independently. Networks experience interruptions. Workloads fluctuate. Applications evolve over time. Without a dependable messaging layer, these challenges often lead to lost events, tight coupling, operational complexity, and reduced system resilience.
HornetMQ exists to solve that problem.
It provides a reliable messaging backbone that enables applications and devices to communicate asynchronously, securely, and efficiently. By separating producers from consumers, systems become easier to build, scale, and maintain.
Whether messages originate from enterprise software, PLCs, IoT devices, cloud applications, or edge gateways, HornetMQ ensures they are delivered predictably and processed reliably.
The result is infrastructure that remains responsive under load, adapts to changing workloads, and supports long-term growth without increasing architectural complexity.
Key Features
Key Features
Production messaging primitives without the operational drag.
High Performance
Process thousands of messages efficiently with an architecture optimized for low latency, predictable throughput, and minimal resource consumption.
Enterprise Security
Protect communication using authentication, authorization, encrypted connections, and secure deployment practices suitable for enterprise and industrial environments.
Flexible Routing
Support point-to-point queues, publish-subscribe topics, event distribution, and application integration using a consistent messaging model.
Horizontal Scalability
Expand capacity as demand increases without redesigning your applications. Scale deployments to support growing workloads across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
Developer-Friendly Experience
Get started quickly with clear documentation, straightforward configuration, practical examples, and APIs designed for modern development workflows.
Enterprise Benefits
Enterprise Benefits
Infrastructure You Can Depend On
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Infrastructure You Can Depend On
Reliable systems begin with reliable communication. HornetMQ is designed to continue delivering messages even when individual services experience failures or temporary outages. Durable messaging reduces the risk of data loss while helping applications recover gracefully.
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Performance That Keeps Pace
Messaging should never become the bottleneck. HornetMQ delivers efficient routing, predictable processing, and responsive communication across distributed systems, enabling applications to operate consistently under demanding workloads.
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Security Built Into the Platform
Enterprise communication requires strong security from the outset. HornetMQ supports encrypted transport, authentication, role-based access controls, and secure operational practices to help protect business-critical data.
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Scale Without Complexity
Applications evolve over time. HornetMQ enables organizations to increase capacity incrementally while preserving existing integrations and messaging patterns. Services can be added, removed, or updated independently without disrupting the broader system.
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Easier Maintenance
Loose coupling reduces dependencies between systems. Teams can update services independently, deploy new functionality more frequently, and simplify long-term platform maintenance.
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Operational Visibility
Understand what your messaging infrastructure is doing in production. Monitor message flow, queue health, delivery rates, processing status, and operational metrics to identify issues before they impact downstream systems.
Solutions
Solutions
Solutions for Modern Infrastructure
Industrial Automation
Connect PLCs, HMIs, SCADA platforms, manufacturing systems, and operational technology through dependable messaging that supports real-time industrial communication.
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SCADA
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Architecture Overview
Architecture Overview
HornetMQ follows a messaging architecture that separates message producers from message consumers, allowing each component to operate independently while remaining connected through a reliable messaging layer.
Applications, devices, services, and edge systems publish messages to HornetMQ without requiring direct knowledge of the systems that will ultimately process them.
Messages are stored within queues for reliable point-to-point delivery or distributed through topics for publish-subscribe communication.
Consumers receive messages when they are available, process them according to business requirements, and acknowledge successful completion.
This architecture improves resilience by allowing producers and consumers to evolve independently. Temporary failures, maintenance windows, or workload spikes can be absorbed without interrupting the overall flow of information.
Whether supporting enterprise software, industrial automation, or cloud-native services, HornetMQ provides a consistent communication model that scales from individual applications to complex distributed systems.
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Performance
Performance
Engineered for Production Workloads
Modern messaging platforms must perform consistently under changing workloads. HornetMQ is designed to provide dependable performance across development, testing, and production environments.
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High Throughput
Efficient message routing enables applications to process large volumes of events while maintaining predictable system behaviour.
Low Latency
Optimized communication paths reduce unnecessary overhead, allowing messages to move quickly between producers and consumers.
Reliable Delivery
Delivery acknowledgements, durable messaging, retry strategies, and configurable persistence help ensure important messages are not lost.
Scalable Architecture
Expand deployments horizontally to support increasing workloads while preserving application architecture and messaging patterns.
Production-Ready Deployments
Deploy HornetMQ on-premises, within virtual machines, inside containers, or across modern orchestration platforms. The platform integrates naturally into enterprise infrastructure and existing operational processes.
Documentation
Documentation
Everything You Need to Build with Confidence
Whether you're evaluating HornetMQ for the first time or deploying production workloads, comprehensive documentation helps you move from installation to deployment with confidence.
Explore practical guides covering every stage of implementation.
example.go
// Publish a message to a HornetMQ topic
package main
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"github.com/hornetmq/client-go"
)
func main() {
client, _ := hornetmq.Connect("amqp://localhost:5672")
defer client.Close()
err := client.Publish(context.Background(),
"orders.created",
[]byte(`{"id":"ORD-4092"}`),
)
if err == nil {
fmt.Println("Message delivered.")
}
}Quick Start
Launch your first messaging environment in minutes.
Installation
Deploy HornetMQ across development, testing, and production environments.
Configuration
Configure brokers, security, routing, persistence, networking, and operational settings.
API Reference
Browse complete API documentation and messaging interfaces.
Examples
Learn through practical implementation examples for common messaging scenarios.
Deployment Guides
Follow recommended deployment patterns for enterprise infrastructure, containers, cloud platforms, and high-availability environments.
Community
Community
Built for Developers. Improved Together.
HornetMQ grows through practical feedback from developers, operators, architects, and organizations deploying messaging infrastructure in real-world environments.
GitHub
Browse the source code, review releases, explore examples, and stay informed about ongoing development.
View GitHub →Issue Reporting
Report bugs, request enhancements, and help improve platform reliability through transparent issue tracking.
Learn More →Discussions
Share implementation ideas, ask technical questions, and exchange knowledge with other users building distributed systems.
Join the Community →Contributing
Contributions of every size are welcome, including documentation improvements, testing, code contributions, feature proposals, and community support.
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
HornetMQ is an enterprise messaging platform that enables reliable communication between applications, services, devices, and distributed systems through queues, topics, and event-driven messaging.
HornetMQ is intended for software developers, platform engineers, solution architects, DevOps teams, industrial automation engineers, and organizations building distributed applications.
Yes. HornetMQ can be deployed within cloud infrastructure, virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes clusters, hybrid environments, and traditional on-premises data centres.
Yes. HornetMQ supports asynchronous communication patterns that reduce coupling between services while improving resilience and scalability.
Yes. HornetMQ is well suited for industrial automation, manufacturing systems, SCADA platforms, PLC integration, and edge computing where dependable communication is essential.
Messages can be stored durably, acknowledged after successful processing, retried when necessary, and delivered independently of temporary application failures.
Yes. Topics enable publishers to distribute events to multiple subscribers without requiring direct integration between applications.
HornetMQ supports authentication, authorization, encrypted communication, and secure deployment practices suitable for enterprise environments.
Yes. Deployments can be expanded horizontally while preserving existing messaging patterns and application architecture.
The documentation provides installation guides, configuration references, examples, deployment recommendations, and API documentation to help teams begin quickly.
Build Reliable Systems on a Strong Messaging Foundation
Modern applications depend on dependable communication.
Whether you're connecting enterprise applications, cloud services, industrial systems, or intelligent devices, HornetMQ provides the messaging infrastructure required to keep information moving reliably.
Start building with a messaging platform designed for production environments, straightforward operations, and long-term scalability.