Introduction

EMQX Enterprise is the world’s most scalable and reliable MQTT messaging platform to connect, move and process your data in business-critical scenarios for the IoT era.

Benefits

100% MQTT Compliant

• 100% compliant with MQTT v5.0 and v3.x standards.
• Fully supports QoS 0, 1 & 2 of MQTT message delivery.
• Works with all MQTT clients and libraries like Eclipse Paho.

Data Security & Privacy

• Ensure data security with MQTT over TLS/SSL.
• Authenticate with LDAP, JWT, PSK, X.509 certificates, and more.
• Rich data management APIs to help keeping your data protection policy in line with EU’s GDPR.

Cloud-Native

• Adopt cloud-native architecture based on Kubernetes. One-click deployment for on-premises or fully managed service.

Run Anywhere

• Run anywhere in private, hybrid, and public clouds like AWS, GCP, and Azure without vendor lock-in.

High ROI (Return on Investment) with Low TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)

• Efficiently use network and server resources.
• Pay for annual subscription, no costly one-off purchases.
• Get high ROI from your IoT solutions with low TCO.

Global Technical Support

• 7 sites globally, covering USA, Europe, Japan and China.
• More than ten business partners in Europe, USA and India.
• 24/7 worldwide technical support service.

Features List

Below is a brief/incomplete feature list, highlighting the features EMQX provides.

Connectivity

• Full MQTT v3.1, v3.1.1 and v5.0 protocol specification support
  • QoS 0, QoS 1, QoS 2 message support
  • Persistent conversation and offline message support
  • Retained message support
  • Last Will message support
  • Shared subscription support
  • $SYS/ system topic support
• MQTT supports 4 transport protocols
  • TCP
  • TLS
  • WebSocket
• HTTP message publishing interface support
• Gateways
  • CoAP
  • LwM2M
  • MQTT-SN
  • Stomp
  • GB/T 32960 (Enterprise edition)
  • JT/T 808 (Enterprise edition)
  • OCPP (Enterprise edition)

Advanced features for MQTT:

• Delayed Publish
• Auto subscription
• Topic rewrite

Security

• Authentication based on username/password supported using built-in database, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB as data sources, and HTTP server to provide authentication services
• Authentication based JWT supported using JWKs
• Enhanced Authentication for MQTT 5.0
• PSK authentication
• Access control (Authorization) based on Client ID, IP address, and username supported using built-in database, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB as data sources, and HTTP Server to provide authorization services
• API to ban clients

Scalability

• Multi-server node cluster (Cluster)
• Support manual, dns, etcd, k8s cluster discovery methods
• Multi-server node bridge (Bridge)

Data Integration

• SQL syntax data integrations to extract, filter, enrich, and transform MQTT message or internal events to desired format and export them to external data platforms
• Supports data bridging with other brokers or IoT platforms using MQTT (such as EMQX Cloud, AWS IoT Core, Azure IoT Hub)
• Supports integration with other apps using WebHook
• 30+ enterprise system integrations including Kafka, RDS, various SQL / NoSQL / time-series databases, and enterprise systems such as Oracle and SAP (Enterprise edition)

Reliability

• Overload protection
• Message rate limit
• Connection rate limit

Observability

• Client online status query
• Cluster status and metrics query
• Integration with Prometheus/StatsD
• Online log based tracing
• Runtime tracing tools

Extensibility

• Plugins
• Hooks
• gRPC hook extension
• gRPC protocol extension