EMQX Product Roadmap

2024 Roadmap

Durable Sessions: Built-in high-availability durable sessions based on RocksDB.
Client Attributes: Set additional attributes for each MQTT client for authentication, authorization, data integration, and MQTT extension features.
Kerberos Authentication: Client access supports Kerberos authentication.
Message Queue: Implement message queue functionality with a producer/consumer model using persistent queues.
Schema Validation: Use Avro, Protobuf, and JSON Schema to validate messages against expected formats.
Message Transformation: Transform, enrich, and restructure message content and format.
Rule Engine Debug and Tracing: End-to-end testing and tracing of rules and data integration.
More Flexible Rule Engine:
- Error Actions
- Fallback Actions
- Conditional Actions
Global Multi-Region Distributed Cluster: Deploy a cluster across different regions.
Cluster Linking: Clusters in different regions can connect as a federated cluster in a unified namespace, enabling message replication.
MQTT Stream: Persistently stores published messages into built-in streams, which other services can consume.
Hot Upgrades and Patches: Perform incremental upgrades and patch installations via the Dashboard.
OIDC SSO: The Dashboard supports the OIDC SSO protocol.
Multi-Tenancy: Cluster reuse functionality within a unified namespace.
More Data Integrations:
- Elasticsearch Data Integration
- Amazon S3 Data Integration
- Azure Blob Storage Data Integration
- CouchbaseDB Data Integration
- Snowflake Data Integration
- Message bridging supports SysKeeper firewall traversal.

Future Versions

Default release using Elixir.
Splitting EMQX node roles.
Using QUIC protocol in cluster communication.
Supporting other languages and external runtimes (e.g., JavaScript, Python) in the rule engine.