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Technical comparison

Compare Waterstream with other IoT solutions that combine the MQTT protocol with Kafka streaming.

Infrastructure

Kafka MQTT Connector

Kafka MQTT Proxy

HiveMQ Enterprise Extension for Kafka

Waterstream

It’s a MQTT Broker

No

Yes, extends Kafka to enable broker functionalities

Yes

 Yes, it’s full-featured MQTT broker that runs on top of Apacha Kafka

Requires third party MQTT Broker

Yes

No

Yes, HiveMQ

No

Other services required to work beside Kafka

Kafka Connect

No

HiveMQ

No

On Premise

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

MQTT Protocol

Kafka
MQTT Connector

Kafka
MQTT Proxy

HiveMQ Enterprise Extension for Kafka

Waterstream

Device
can read

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Device
can write

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

QoS0
Support

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

QoS1
Support

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

QoS2
Support

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Uses
X509 authentication

N/A

Yes

Yes

Yes

Manages
authorization

N/A

No

Yes

Yes

Free
form topic publish/subscribe

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Multi
device wildcard subscription

N/A

No

Yes

Yes

Messages/ACKs
order guarantee

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Retained
messages support

N/A

N/A

Yes

Yes

Other

Kafka
MQTT Connector

Kafka
MQTT Proxy

HiveMQ Enterprise Extension for Kafka

Waterstream

Supports
REST

N/A

N/A

No

No*

Supports
Websocket

N/A

No

Yes

Yes

Supports
AMQP

N/A

No

No

No*

Deployment

Requires third
party MQTT broker

 

Requires HiveMQ,
complex deployment

Easy
deployment

* In the product roadmap

Contact Info
  • SimpleMatter Srl
    The Era of Evolutionary Systems
  • Location:
    Galleria Gandhi 15, Rho - 20017, Milano, Italy

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