Feature Comparison

This page lists features supported across different deployment types in detail.

Core / Enterprise Features

Features	Self-Hosted		MQTT as a Service		Notes and Links
	EMQX Open Source	EMQX Enterprise	EMQX Cloud Serverless	EMQX Dedicated Cloud
MQTT 5.0 Broker					Complete MQTT 5.0 protocol implementation
MQTT over QUIC					Globally Poineering Support In development for Cloud
MQTT Add-ons					Shared subscription Exclusive subscription Delayed publish Auto-subscription Topic rewrite More customization options
Multi-protocol Gateways					More industry device access
Multi-tenancy					Higer system flexibility and utilization (Coming soon)
Cluster Linking					Seamless connection of devices and application data (Coming soon)
Event History					Client fault diagnosis and behavioral audit
Message Queuing					Unified architecture for data transmission and analysis (Coming soon)
Stream Processing					Higher reliability and disaster recovery capabilities (Coming soon)
Data Persistence		Built-in RocksDB backend or external databases	N/A	N/A	Improved stability and reliability
Schema Registry					Schema Registry ensures data consistency and compatibility
Message Codec					Flexible message format conversion for: JSON Avro Protobuf Custom codec (HTTP/gRPC)
Schema Validation				In product roadmap	Ensuring integrity and legality of messages
Rule Engine					SQL-based built-in Rule Engine and real-time data processing
Flow Designer				In product roadmap	Easy orchestration of data integration
File Transfer				In product roadmap	Unified platform data transmission
Kafka Integration					Stream MQTT Data into Apache Kafka
Enterprise Data Integrations		40+		40+	Accelerate business development and delivery speed
Troubleshooting					Log Trace Slow Subscriptions
Cloud-Native & K8s			N/A	N/A	Reduce system deployment and management costs
Edge Computing					Reduce data transmission latency and costs Neuron NanoMQ

Scalability and Performance

Scalability/Performance	Self-Hosted		MQTT as a Service		Notes and Links
	EMQX Open Source	EMQX Enterprise	EMQX Cloud Serverless	EMQX Dedicated Cloud
Scalability	Up to 3 nodes cluster Up to 100,000 connections in production	Up to 100 nodes cluster Up to 100 million MQTT connections per cluster	1000 auto scale	1000 - unlimited	Reaching 100M MQTT connections with EMQX 5.0
Availability	Masterless cluster	Core-Replica cluster	Masterless cluster	Masterless cluster
Reliability	Session persistence	Data persistence in RocksDB with highly available replication	Session persistence	Session persistence	Highly Reliable MQTT Data Persistence Based on RocksDB
Performance	100,000 MQTT messages per second	5M+ MQTT messages per second	1000 MQTT messages per second	5M+ MQTT messages per second
Latency	1~5 millisecond	1~5 millisecond	1~5 millisecond	1~5 millisecond
SLA	N/A	N/A	99.9% uptime	Up to 99.99% uptime

Clustering Architecture

Clustering Architecture	Self-Hosted		MQTT as a Service		Notes and Links
	EMQX Open Source	EMQX Enterprise	EMQX Cloud Serverless	EMQX Dedicated Cloud
Nodes of Cluster	No more than 3	100+	confidential	confidential	Large-scale clusters
Elastic and resilient scaling at runtime					Higer system stability and resource utilization
Autoscaling
Consistency
Transaction					Ensuring the atomicity and reliability of data operations
Network Split Recovery					Cluster failure automatic repair
Node Evacuation & Cluster Rebalance			N/A	N/A	Non-stop cluster maintenance
Autocluster Discoveries			N/A	N/A	static: Discovery based on a static node list mcast: Discovery with UDP multicast mode dns: Discovery based on DNS records etcd: Discovery via etcd k8s: Discovery via Kubernetes service
Zero Downtime/Hot Upgrades			N/A	N/A	Immediate repair of system vulnerabilities
Hot Patch			N/A	N/A	Ensuring stable system operation
Overload Protection			N/A	N/A	Improving system management efficiency
Multi-cluster Management			N/A	N/A	Enhancing system stability
Cluster Metrics			N/A	N/A

MQTT and Connectivity

MQTT & Connectivity	Self-Hosted		MQTT as a Service		Notes and Links
	EMQX Open Source	EMQX Enterprise	EMQX Cloud Serverless	EMQX Dedicated Cloud
MQTT 3.x
MQTT 5.0
MQTT Retainer
MQTT over TCP
MQTT over TLS
MQTT over WebSocket
MQTT over QUIC					EMQX is now the only MQTT broker in the world that supports QUIC transport.
LB (Proxy Protocol)					Proxy protocol v1, v2
LB (Custom)					GmSSL Smooth connection migration
IPv6 Support
Multi-protocol Gateway
MQTT-SN
STOMP
CoAP
LwM2M
ExProto
OCPP
JT/808
GBT32960

Security

Security	Self-Hosted		MQTT as a Service		Notes and Links
	EMQX Open Source	EMQX Enterprise	EMQX Cloud Serverless	EMQX Dedicated Cloud
TLS/SSL					Protect data transmission security: TLS 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
QUIC					Enhance efficiency of weak network and mobile network data transmission
OCSP Stapling					Provide more flexible security practices
Flapping Detect				In product roadmap	Detect and intercept frequent online and offline connections
Audit Logs					Support audit tracing for important operations
Dashboard SSO					Secure and simplified authentication processes
Dashboard/REST API RBAC					Minimize permissions to ensure system security
Black Duck Analysis			N/A	N/A	Secure and simplified authentication processes

Authentication and Authorization

Authentication/Authorization	Self-Hosted		MQTT as a Service		Notes and Links
	EMQX Open Source	EMQX Enterprise	EMQX Cloud Serverless	EMQX Dedicated Cloud
Username/Password					Password-Based Authentication
JWT					JWT Authentication
MQTT 5.0 Enhanced Authentication			N/A	N/A	MQTT 5.0 Enhanced Authentication
LDAP Authentication				In product roadmap
PSK Authentication					Enable PSK Authentication
X.509 Certificates			Managed by EMQX Cloud
Fine-grained Access Control
Authentication Database Backends
ACL Database Backends

Data Integration

Data Integration	Self-Hosted		MQTT as a Service
	EMQX Open Source	EMQX Enterprise	EMQX Cloud Serverless	EMQX Dedicated Cloud
MQTT Bridge
Webhook/HTTP Server
Apache Kafka/Confluent
Apache IoTDB
Apache Pulsar
AWS Kinesis
AWS S3
Azure Event Hubs
Cassandra
ClickHouse
DynamoDB
Elasticsearch
GCP PubSub
GreptimeDB
HStreamDB
InfluxDB
Microsoft SQL Server
MongoDB
MySQL
OpenTSDB
Oracle Database
PostgreSQL
RabbitMQ
Redis
RocketMQ
Syskeeper
TDengine
TimeScaleDB

Rule Engine

Rule Engine	Self-Hosted		MQTT as a Service		Notes and Links
	EMQX Open Source	EMQX Enterprise	EMQX Cloud Serverless	EMQX Dedicated Cloud
Schema Registry					Ensure data format consistency
JSON Codec
Avro Codec
Protobuf Codec
Sparkplug B Codec
JSON Schema Validation
Avro Validation
ProtoBuf Validation
Built-in Functions					Functions available in SQL statements, rich built-in libraries, support custom extensions
jq Functions					Efficient JSON data processing
Event Trigger					Client events, event-driven business development

Extensibility

Extensibility	Self-Hosted		MQTT as a Service		Notes and Links
	EMQX Open Source	EMQX Enterprise	EMQX Cloud Serverless	EMQX Dedicated Cloud
Hooks			N/A	N/A	Hooks
Plugins			N/A	N/A	Plugins
Plugin Hot Loading			N/A	N/A
Plugin Hot Configuration			N/A	N/A
Gateways			N/A	N/A
ExHooks/gRPC			N/A	N/A

Operability

Operability	Self-Hosted		MQTT as a Service		Notes and Links
	EMQX Open Source	EMQX Enterprise	EMQX Cloud Serverless	EMQX Dedicated Cloud
Dashboard					EMQX dashboard is feature-rich. Configs can be hot udpated through dashboard.
Configuration	HOCON	HOCON	N/A	N/A	The HOCON format is simple and concise.
HTTP API
CLI
Config Hot Updates			N/A	N/A
Operational Auditing

Observability

Observability	Self-Hosted		MQTT as a Service		Notes and Links
	EMQX Open Source	EMQX Enterprise	EMQX Cloud Serverless	EMQX Dedicated Cloud
Dashboard					Monitor clusters in real time with an elegant dashboard
Metrics					Node metrics
Grafana
Prometheus
Datadog				In product roadmap
OpenTelemetry				In product roadmap
Cluster Metrics			N/A	N/A
Alarm Alerts
Slow Subscription Monitoring				In product roadmap
Topic Monitoring				In product roadmap
Client Monitoring
Log Trace

Cloud Native and K8S

Cloud Native & K8s	Self-Hosted		MQTT as a Service		Notes and Links
	EMQX Open Source	EMQX Enterprise	EMQX Cloud Serverless	EMQX Dedicated Cloud
Docker			N/A	N/A	emqx - Official Image | Docker HubDocker
Kubernetes Operator			N/A	N/A	EMQX Kubernetes Operator
Terraform			N/A	N/A	EMQX Terraform

Cloud Platform Availability

Cloud Platform	Self-Hosted		MQTT as a Service		Notes and Links
	EMQX Open Source	EMQX Enterprise	EMQX Cloud Serverless	EMQX Dedicated Cloud
AWS Marketplace					EMQX is available on AWS Marketplace. AWS Marketplace: EMQX Enterprise on Ubuntu 20.04
Azure Marketplace
GCP Marketplace
AWS
Azure
GCP

MQTT Tools and SDKs

MQTT Tools & SDKs	Self-Hosted		MQTT as a Service		Notes and Links
	EMQX Open Source	EMQX Enterprise	EMQX Cloud Serverless	EMQX Dedicated Cloud
MQTT Desktop Client					MQTT X - The best tool for learning MQTT. MQTTX: Your All-in-one MQTT Client Toolbox
MQTT CLI					MQTTX CLI: A Powerful and Easy-to-use MQTT CLI Tool
MQTT Web Tool					Feature-rich and Easy-to-use. MQTTX Web: Easy-to-use MQTT Websocket Client Tool
MQTT Benchmark					GitHub - emqx/emqtt-bench: Lightweight MQTT benchmark tool written in Erlang
MQTT Load Testing		XMeter			XMeter - The world’s #1 MQTT load testing tool
MQTT & JMeter	JMeter Plugin	XMeter			GitHub - emqx/mqtt-jmeter: MQTT JMeter Plugin
MQTT SDK for C	NanoSDK	NanoSDK			GitHub - nanomq/NanoSDK: NanoSDK - MQTT 5.0-compliant SDK with QUIC support in NNG flavor
MQTT Erlang SDK					GitHub - emqx/emqtt: Erlang MQTT 5.0 Client
MQTT iOS SDK					GitHub - emqx/CocoaMQTT: MQTT 5.0 client library for iOS and macOS written in Swift
MQTT QUIC Client					GitHub - emqx/quic: QUIC protocol for Erlang & Elixir

Support Services

Support Services	Self-Hosted		MQTT as a Service		Notes and Links
	EMQX Open Source	EMQX Enterprise	EMQX Cloud Serverless	EMQX Dedicated Cloud
Technical Support	Community & Forum	5*8, 7*24 Global Support	5*8 Global Support	5*8, 7*24 Global Support
Architecture Consulting
Project Integration
Custom Development