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Evaluation and Performance Analysis of Apache Pulsar and NATS

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Cyber Security and Digital Forensics

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Messaging systems are a crucial part of many distributed systems. Various implementations of open-source message brokers, message queues, and messaging protocols are in wide use to facilitate highly available and reliable messaging. We evaluated the architectures of two popular open-source message brokers used in the cloud: Apache Pulsar and NATS, studying qualitative differences like broker distribution, client architecture, messaging features, etc., and benchmark the two message brokers in realistic deployments.

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  1. Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, New Delhi, India

    Vanita Jain, Aarush Ahuja & Dharmender Saini

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  2. Departamento of Telecommunications (TET), Universidade Federal Fluminese, Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Vania Vieira Estrela

  3. Av. Ministro Petrônio Portela, Universidade Federal Do Piauí, Teresina, Piauí, Brazil

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Jain, V., Ahuja, A., Saini, D. (2022). Evaluation and Performance Analysis of Apache Pulsar and NATS. In: Khanna, K., Estrela, V.V., Rodrigues, J.J.P.C. (eds) Cyber Security and Digital Forensics . Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 73. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3961-6_16

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