Apache RocketMQ

aid: apache-rocketmq
name: Apache RocketMQ
description: Apache RocketMQ is a distributed messaging and streaming platform with low latency, high performance, and reliability.
  It provides trillion-level message capacity with rich message types including normal, transactional, delayed, and ordered
  messages.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Cloud Native
- Messaging
- Message Queue
- Pub-Sub
- Streaming
- Apache
- Open Source
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/apache-rocketmq/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: apache-rocketmq:apache-rocketmq
  name: Apache RocketMQ
  description: RocketMQ provides producer and consumer APIs with client SDKs in Java, Go, Python, C++, C#, Node.js, and Rust,
    along with a REST API and gRPC-based remoting for message operations, topic management, and cluster administration.
  humanURL: https://rocketmq.apache.org/docs/
  tags:
  - Cloud Native
  - Messaging
  - REST
  - Apache
  - Open Source
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://rocketmq.apache.org/docs/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apache-rocketmq-rest-api.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/rest-brokers.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/rest-consumergroups.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/rest-messages.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/rest-topics.yaml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: [email protected]
common:
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/apache/rocketmq
- type: Documentation
  url: https://rocketmq.apache.org/
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/apache-rocketmq-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/apache-rocketmq-vocabulary.yaml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/apache-rocketmq-context.jsonld
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: High Throughput
    description: Billion-level message throughput with low latency
  - name: Multiple Message Types
    description: Normal, ordered, delayed, transactional, and batch messages
  - name: Message Filtering
    description: Server-side tag and SQL expression filtering
  - name: Exactly-Once Semantics
    description: Transactional messages for exactly-once delivery
  - name: Delayed Messages
    description: Schedule messages with configurable delay levels
  - name: Dead Letter Queue
    description: Automatic dead letter queue for failed messages
  - name: Message Tracing
    description: End-to-end message tracing for debugging and monitoring
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Order Processing
    description: Ensure ordered processing of e-commerce order events
  - name: Event-Driven Microservices
    description: Decouple microservices with reliable asynchronous messaging
  - name: Log Aggregation
    description: Aggregate application logs from distributed services
  - name: Financial Transactions
    description: Reliable transactional messaging for financial systems
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Spring Boot
    description: RocketMQ Spring Boot starter for easy integration
  - name: Apache Flink
    description: Flink connector for stream processing from RocketMQ
  - name: Apache Spark
    description: Spark Streaming connector for RocketMQ
  - name: Kubernetes
    description: RocketMQ Operator for Kubernetes-native deployment