Thanks, this does help clear up my understanding of how this fits in.
Sent from my really tiny device...
On Aug 22, 2013, at 3:25 PM, "Flavio Percoco" <fla...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 22/08/13 16:29 +0000, Kurt Griffiths wrote:
>>> What was wrong with qpid, rabbitmq, activemq, zeromq, ${your favorite
>>> queue here} that required marconi?
>>
>> That's a good question. The features supported by AMQP brokers, ZMQ, and
>> Marconi certainly do overlap in some areas. At the same time, however, each
>> of these options offer distinct features that may or may not align with what
>> a web developer is trying to accomplish.
>>
>> Here are a few of Marconi's unique features, relative to the other options
>> you mentioned:
>>
>> * Multi-tenant
>> * Keystone integration
>> * 100% Python
>> * First-class, stateless, firewall-friendly HTTP(S) transport driver
>> * Simple protocol, easy for clients to implement
>> * Scales to an unlimited number of queues and clients
>> * Per-queue stats, useful for monitoring and autoscale
>> * Tag-based message filtering (planned)
>>
>> Relative to SQS, Marconi:
>>
>> * Is open-source and community-driven
>> * Supports private and hybrid deployments
>> * Offers hybrid pub-sub and producer-consumer semantics
>> * Provides a clean, modern HTTP API
>> * Can route messages to multiple queues (planned)
>> * Can perform custom message transformations (planned)
>
> I'd also add that Marconi is being developed as a cloud service and
> not just as a cloud software. That means, it aims to give users an
> easy way to setup a queue service and offer that to users - internal,
> external, hybrid - without struggling with common issues like
> auth,scaling, firewals, APIs and libraries. This fits perfectly with
> OpenStack mission.
>
> I'd also like everyone to think about upcoming features as well and
> what's in the roadmap. Marconi will also provide different transports
> - next in the queue is ZMQ - and it will also sit on top of some
> existing MB - we've plan to use rabbit, proton and other
> technologies as storage backend.
> Also, Marconi will not provide just queues but also notifications.
>
> Hope this helps clarifying the purpose of this project.
>
> Cheers,
> FF
>
> --
> @flaper87
> Flavio Percoco
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