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Re: [hono-dev] NATS vs. Eclipse hono

It seems like they have done a good job with:
  • positioning their technology as "... the cloud native messaging system."
  • getting community contributions
  • acquiring references adopters. "Ericsson, HTC, Siemens, VMware, Pivotal, GE and Baidu rely on the NATS enterprise messaging system...." is a very good list.

To me this is a reminder that marketing and momentum are as important as good technology.

BTW, the company behind NATS is Apcera, which apparently is majority owned by Ericsson.


On 2018-03-15 4:26 AM, Buck Caroline (INST/PRM) wrote:

Hey all,

 

we had a look at it ~ 2 ys ago. This was the result:

 

-       Proprietary protocol.  (no MQTT, no AMQP)

-       No persistence layer as yet.  

-       In-memory signaling technology rather than a message broker.  

-       Could be used for telemetry use cases, if “spray and pray” mode is sufficient, but won’t help with command/control.

 

Looks like they added a new component ”NATS Streaming” in the meantime, that adds at least the persistence part and could support more reliable command/control.

 

AFAIU, NATS doesn´t provide higher-level concepts like “tenants”, “telemetry”, “command&control” and “device registration, it remains at messaging and event-processing level, “only”. So, I wouldn´t regard it as a competitive technology to Hono. Also, because there currently is nothing comparable to device connectivity adapters (CoAP, LWM2M), which are at least planned to be implemented at some point in time to my understanding.

 

WDYT? J

 

Cheers, Caro


Von: hono-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:hono-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Benjamin Cabé
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. März 2018 23:30
An: hono developer discussions <hono-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Betreff: [hono-dev] NATS vs. Eclipse hono

 

Hi there,

 

Has anyone here had a look at NATS? https://nats.io

I would be interested in hearing how people think it compares to (or competes with?) hono.

 

More links:

 

Thanks!

Benjamin -



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