Amazon EventBridge vs NSQ

	Amazon EventBridge	NSQ
Time to "hello world" Reviewed by 3+ independent developers Ratings were given based on the average amount of time it takes to sign up to a new account and publish the first message.	5 / 5 5 = <30 min 4 = 30 min - 1 h 3 = 1-2 h 2 = 2-4 h 1 = 4+ h View code example	4 / 5 5 = <30 min 4 = 30 min - 1 h 3 = 1-2 h 2 = 2-4 h 1 = 4+ h View code example
Demos / Tutorials A selection of online demos and tutorials so you can test and see the code in action. Explore Ably's tutorials for our pub/sub messaging platform	Log the state of an Amazon EC2 instance using EventBridge Schedule AWS Lambda Functions using EventBridge Relay events to an Amazon Kinesis stream using EventBridge	NSQ Docs 1.2.0 - Installing NSQ Docs 1.2.0 - Quick Start NSQ - NYC Golang Meetup
Documentation Reviewed by 3+ independent developers Explore Ably's documentation for our pub/sub messaging platform	3.83 / 5 Getting started guides / 5 Information architecture and developer journey / 5 API reference documentation / 5 Readability, design and navigation / 5 Quality of code / 5 Breadth and quality of tutorials / 5 “The navigation and information architecture are well thought out, and the documentation is largely clear and easy to comprehend. The getting started guide is good, but it lacks some screenshots, which would have broken down the monotony of walls of text. The tutorials are essentially detailed step-by-step guidances that are easy to follow. Sadly they do not cover programmable steps and don’t provide any code snippets - they focus entirely on performing actions from the AWS console”.	3.67 / 5 Getting started guides / 5 Information architecture and developer journey / 5 API reference documentation / 5 Readability, design and navigation / 5 Quality of code / 5 Breadth and quality of tutorials / 5 O: “Documentation is detailed and clear, the start up guide is simple to follow. There could be more examples of usages added.”. W: “There is a lot of information available and the documentation is easy to navigate. However i think there could be some more detailed tutorials and a more informative introduction.”. P: “The quick start is easy to follow and understand. The architecture documentation is thorough. There could be more tutorials.”
Dashboard or dev console Reviewed by 3+ independent developers Sign up for free and explore Ably's pub/sub messaging platform	4 / 5 Ease of use / 5 Stats and reports / 5 Functionality / 5 “The EventBridge console provides all the functionality you need for managing event-driven pipelines, rules, event buses, and targets. Additionally, it supports native integrations to ingest events from a few external, non-AWS event sources. This includes some popular SaaS platforms such as ZenDesk, Datadog, Segment, and more. The console is tricky to use for new starters, and you constantly have to switch to other AWS services, such as Cloudwatch (for stats and reports).”	3.67 / 5 Ease of use / 5 Stats and reports / 5 Functionality / 5 O: “The admin dashboard allows you to manage and configure your topics. It has a clear interface and offers the ability to list information about each topic as well as perform a list of actions on them.”. W: “The admin dashboard is intuitive and it gives you the ability to manage your channels and queues and also see statistics for them. The dashboard looks a little basic but it’s easy to use and covers what you need.” P: “The dashboard gives you an overview over your topics, streams, nodes and metrics. It lets you manage your queues and topics. Gives you metrics on the number of messages a node has handled.”
SDKs Note: Only official SDKs were taken into account. Explore Ably's 25+ SDKs for our pub/sub messaging platform	9 SDKs Including: Ruby .NET JavaScript	40 SDKs Including: Go Python Javascript
API structure Reviewed by 3+ independent developers	4.25 / 5 API consistency across SDKs / 5 Well structured / 5 Intuitive / 5 Simple / 5 “EventBridge APIs are available as part of the AWS SDKs. They are largely consistent across programming languages, straightforward, and relatively easy to use. The API reference is detailed and includes plenty of examples. In any case, you’re probably better off interacting with EventBridge from the AWS console, since the product seems to be designed to be used this way primarily.”	4.50 / 5 API consistency across SDKs / 5 Well structured / 5 Intuitive / 5 Simple / 5 O: The API is straightforward. It is consistent for the official SDKs. However, some of the unofficial SDKs are missing support for pub/sub”. W: “The API is fairly consistent between the SDKs and it is structured in an intuitive way. The API endpoints are mostly self-explanatory and it is easy to understand what they will accomplish.”. P: “There exists a vast amount of SDKs. The official client libraries are consistent, but in the unofficial libraries, there are inconsistencies between features. The naming conventions in the SDKs are intuitive and easy to follow.”

Amazon EventBridge

NSQ

Getting started and developer experience

Time to "hello world"

Reviewed by 3+ independent developers

Ratings were given based on the average amount of time it takes to sign up to a new account and publish the first message.

5 / 5

5 = <30 min
4 = 30 min - 1 h
3 = 1-2 h
2 = 2-4 h
1 = 4+ h

View code example

4 / 5

5 = <30 min
4 = 30 min - 1 h
3 = 1-2 h
2 = 2-4 h
1 = 4+ h

View code example

Demos / Tutorials

A selection of online demos and tutorials so you can test and see the code in action.

Explore Ably's tutorials for our pub/sub messaging platform

Documentation

Reviewed by 3+ independent developers

Explore Ably's documentation for our pub/sub messaging platform

3.83 / 5

Getting started guides / 5

Information architecture and developer journey / 5

API reference documentation / 5

Readability, design and navigation / 5

Quality of code / 5

Breadth and quality of tutorials / 5

“The navigation and information architecture are well thought out, and the documentation is largely clear and easy to comprehend. The getting started guide is good, but it lacks some screenshots, which would have broken down the monotony of walls of text. The tutorials are essentially detailed step-by-step guidances that are easy to follow. Sadly they do not cover programmable steps and don’t provide any code snippets - they focus entirely on performing actions from the AWS console”.

3.67 / 5

Getting started guides / 5

Information architecture and developer journey / 5

API reference documentation / 5

Readability, design and navigation / 5

Quality of code / 5

Breadth and quality of tutorials / 5

O: “Documentation is detailed and clear, the start up guide is simple to follow. There could be more examples of usages added.”.

W: “There is a lot of information available and the documentation is easy to navigate. However i think there could be some more detailed tutorials and a more informative introduction.”.

P: “The quick start is easy to follow and understand. The architecture documentation is thorough. There could be more tutorials.”

Dashboard or dev console

Reviewed by 3+ independent developers

4 / 5

Ease of use / 5

Stats and reports / 5

Functionality / 5

“The EventBridge console provides all the functionality you need for managing event-driven pipelines, rules, event buses, and targets. Additionally, it supports native integrations to ingest events from a few external, non-AWS event sources. This includes some popular SaaS platforms such as ZenDesk, Datadog, Segment, and more. The console is tricky to use for new starters, and you constantly have to switch to other AWS services, such as Cloudwatch (for stats and reports).”

3.67 / 5

Ease of use / 5

Stats and reports / 5

Functionality / 5

O: “The admin dashboard allows you to manage and configure your topics. It has a clear interface and offers the ability to list information about each topic as well as perform a list of actions on them.”.

W: “The admin dashboard is intuitive and it gives you the ability to manage your channels and queues and also see statistics for them. The dashboard looks a little basic but it’s easy to use and covers what you need.”

P: “The dashboard gives you an overview over your topics, streams, nodes and metrics. It lets you manage your queues and topics. Gives you metrics on the number of messages a node has handled.”

SDKs

Note: Only official SDKs were taken into account.

Explore Ably's 25+ SDKs for our pub/sub messaging platform

9 SDKs

Including:

Ruby
.NET
JavaScript

40 SDKs

Including:

Go
Python
Javascript

API structure

Reviewed by 3+ independent developers

4.25 / 5

API consistency across SDKs / 5

Well structured / 5

Intuitive / 5

Simple / 5

“EventBridge APIs are available as part of the AWS SDKs. They are largely consistent across programming languages, straightforward, and relatively easy to use. The API reference is detailed and includes plenty of examples. In any case, you’re probably better off interacting with EventBridge from the AWS console, since the product seems to be designed to be used this way primarily.”

4.50 / 5

API consistency across SDKs / 5

Well structured / 5

Intuitive / 5

Simple / 5

O: The API is straightforward. It is consistent for the official SDKs. However, some of the unofficial SDKs are missing support for pub/sub”.

W: “The API is fairly consistent between the SDKs and it is structured in an intuitive way. The API endpoints are mostly self-explanatory and it is easy to understand what they will accomplish.”.

P: “There exists a vast amount of SDKs. The official client libraries are consistent, but in the unofficial libraries, there are inconsistencies between features. The naming conventions in the SDKs are intuitive and easy to follow.”

Amazon EventBridge	NSQ
// Service producing event and publishing to Event Bridge const AWS = require('aws-sdk') AWS.config.region = process.env.AWS_REGION \|\| 'us-east-1' const eventbridge = new AWS.EventBridge() exports.lambdaHandler = async (event, context) => { // Do some work... // And now create the event... const { params } = require('./events.js') console.log('--- Params ---') console.log(params) const result = await eventbridge.putEvents(params).promise() console.log('--- Response ---') console.log(result) // Event example { // Event envelope fields Source: 'custom.myATMapp', EventBusName: 'default', DetailType: 'transaction', Time: new Date(), // Main event body Detail: JSON.stringify({ action: 'withdrawal', location: 'MA-BOS-01', amount: 300, result: 'approved', transactionId: '123456', cardPresent: true, partnerBank: 'Example Bank', remainingFunds: 722.34 }) } // Consuming service (target) exports.case1Handler = async (event) => { console.log('--- Approved transactions ---') console.log(JSON.stringify(event, null, 2)) }	// Create reader const nsq = require('nsqjs') const reader = new nsq.Reader('sample_topic', 'test_channel', { lookupdHTTPAddresses: '127.0.0.1:4161' }) reader.connect() reader.on('message', msg => { console.log('Received message [%s]: %s', msg.id, msg.body.toString()) msg.finish() }) // Create writer const nsq = require('nsqjs') const w = new nsq.Writer('127.0.0.1', 55004) w.connect() w.on('ready', () => { w.publish('sample_topic', 'Test message') }) w.on('closed', () => { console.log('Writer closed') })

Amazon EventBridge

NSQ

"Hello world" code example

// Service producing event and publishing to Event Bridge
const AWS = require('aws-sdk')
AWS.config.region = process.env.AWS_REGION || 'us-east-1'
const eventbridge = new AWS.EventBridge()

exports.lambdaHandler = async (event, context) => {
  // Do some work... 
  // And now create the event...

  const { params } = require('./events.js')

  console.log('--- Params ---')
  console.log(params)
  const result = await eventbridge.putEvents(params).promise()

  console.log('--- Response ---')
  console.log(result) 

// Event example
{
   // Event envelope fields
   Source: 'custom.myATMapp',
   EventBusName: 'default',
   DetailType: 'transaction',
   Time: new Date(),

   // Main event body
   Detail: JSON.stringify({
     action: 'withdrawal',
     location: 'MA-BOS-01',
     amount: 300,
     result: 'approved',
     transactionId: '123456',
     cardPresent: true,
     partnerBank: 'Example Bank',
     remainingFunds: 722.34
      })
 }
// Consuming service (target)
exports.case1Handler = async (event) => {
  console.log('--- Approved transactions ---')
  console.log(JSON.stringify(event, null, 2))
}

// Create reader
const nsq = require('nsqjs')

const reader = new nsq.Reader('sample_topic', 'test_channel', {
  lookupdHTTPAddresses: '127.0.0.1:4161'
})

reader.connect()

reader.on('message', msg => {
  console.log('Received message [%s]: %s', msg.id, msg.body.toString())
  msg.finish()
})

// Create writer
const nsq = require('nsqjs')
const w = new nsq.Writer('127.0.0.1', 55004)

w.connect()

w.on('ready', () => {
  w.publish('sample_topic', 'Test message')
})

w.on('closed', () => {
  console.log('Writer closed')
})

	Amazon EventBridge	NSQ
Realtime features
Pub/Sub messaging Pub/Sub is a design pattern that lets any number of publishers (producers) push messages to channels (also known as topics). Multiple subscribers (consumers) can subscribe to a channel to consume published messages. Explore Ably's pub/sub messaging implementation
Message queues A message queue is a form of asynchronous service-to-service communication. Messages are stored on a queue until they are processed. Note that each message is only consumed by one subscriber (consumer). Explore Ably's message queues implementation	Limited Amazon EventBridge integrates with Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) in order to provide message queues.
Presence Presence enables you to track the online and offline status of devices and end-users in real time and to store their state. Essential for chat apps and multiplayer games. Explore Ably's presence implementation
Message history Message history provides a means to retrieve previously published messages. For this to be possible, message data must be stored (persisted) somewhere. Explore Ably's message history implementation		Limited The --mem-queue-size can be increased and messages can be written to disk; however, this is mainly an in-memory messaging platform.
Connection state recovery (stream resume) In the case of unreliable network conditions, clients may suddenly disconnect.Connection state recovery ensures that when they reconnect, the data stream resumes exactly where it left off. Explore Ably' s connection state recovery implementation
Guaranteed message ordering Ordering ensures that messages are delivered to consumers in the same order that producers publish them. Explore Ably' s guaranteed message ordering implementation
Exactly-once semantics Exactly-once is a system-wide data integrity guarantee that ensures each message is delivered to consumers exactly-once. Explore Ably' s idempotent publishing implementation		Limited The only guarantee is that messages will be delivered at least once. However, it is possible to obtain idempotency with some client configuration.
Message delta compression Message delta compression enables you to only send the changes from the previous message to subscribers each time there’s an update, instead of the entire message. Useful for use cases where there is a significant degree of similarity between successive messages. Explore Ably' s message delta compression implementation
Native push notifications Native push notifications can be used to deliver messages even when clients are offline. Useful for geolocation updates or news alerts. Explore Ably's push notifications implementation
Webhooks Webhooks provide a mechanism to get messages and other types of events (such as clients entering or leaving channels) pushed to your servers over HTTP. Explore Ably's webhooks implementation
Serverless functions A serverless function is essentially an isolated, single-purpose piece of code that is only executed when it’ triggered by an event. For example, you can use serverless functions to send a welcome message to clients when they become present on chat channels. Note that serverless functions are usually fully managed by cloud vendors. Explore Ably's serverless functions implementation	Limited EventBridge only integrates with AWS Lambda Functions, but does not support other serverless platforms, such as Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions.
Built-in integrations Which popular services & systems are Amazon EventBridge and NSQ integrated with? Explore Ably's library of integrations	Webhooks Custom IFTTT Zapier Serverless functions AWS Lambda Cloudflare Workers Google Cloud Functions Microsoft Azure Functions Streaming Apache Kafka Apache Pulsar Amazon Kinesis Amazon SQS RabbitMQ AMQP	Webhooks Custom IFTTT Zapier Serverless functions AWS Lambda Cloudflare Workers Google Cloud Functions Microsoft Azure Functions Streaming Apache Kafka Apache Pulsar Amazon Kinesis Amazon SQS RabbitMQ AMQP
Known limits and constraints Find out practical limits, such as the maximum message size, or the maximum number of concurrent connections. Explore the practical limits of the Ably pub/sub messaging platform	Publisher throughput Varies by region. For example, in US East, you can make up to 2.400 event publishing requests per second. Event Bridge can then send events to consumers at a rate of 4.500 requests per second. Maximum message size 256 KB Maximum number of event buses 100 Event Buses per AWS account Maximum number of connections 300 per region	Publisher throughput Unknown Maximum message size Unknown Maximum number of topics Unknown Maximum number of connections Unknown

Supported development platforms, languages, open protocols and cloud models
Development platforms & operating systems Which popular development platforms and operating systems do Amazon EventBridge and NSQ support via official SDKs? Explore the development platforms supported by Ably	Android Java / JVM iOS macOS iPadOS tvOS watchOS Mono .NET	Android Java / JVM iOS macOS iPadOS tvOS watchOS Mono .NET
Languages Which popular programming languages do Amazon EventBridge and NSQ support via offical SDKs? Explore the programming languages supported by Ably	JavaScript Node.js TypeScript Java Objective-C Swift Go PHP Python Ruby Flutter Clojure Scala	JavaScript Node.js TypeScript Java Objective-C Swift Go PHP Python Ruby Flutter Clojure Scala
Open protocols Which popular open protocols do Amazon EventBridge and NSQ support? Explore the open protocols supported by Ably	WebSocket HTTP AMQP MQTT STOMP SSE Webhooks	WebSocket HTTP AMQP MQTT STOMP SSE Webhooks
Cloud models Which popular cloud models do Amazon EventBridge and NSQ support?	Self-hosted Cloud-managed Serverless Globally-distributed	Self-hosted Cloud-managed Serverless Globally-distributed

Global and reliable edge service
Edge messaging network with latency-based routing Latency-based routing ensures that clients are always routed to the nearest datacenter and point of presence. Explore Ably's routing mechanism that mitigates network and DNS issues
Multi-region data replication (message durability) Multi-region data replication (storage) protects against single points of failure and ensures message data durability. Learn how Ably ensures message durability		Limited It is possible to set up redundant nsqd pairs that will receive the same portion of messages.
Uptime SLAs Here’s what the most common SLAs amount to in terms of downtime over a calendar year: 99.999% SLA = 5m 15s downtime per year 99.99% SLA = 52m 35s downtime per year 99.95% SLA = 4h 22m 58s downtime per year 99.9% SLA = 8h 45m 56s downtime per year 99% SLA = 3d 15h 39m 29s downtime per year Source: https://uptime.is/	99.99%	N/A
Quality of Service What QoS guarantees do Amazon EventBridge and NSQ provide natively? Explore Ably's availability and uptime guarantees for our pub/sub messaging platform	Multi-region data replication (storage) Exactly-once semantics Guaranteed message ordering Connection state recovery (stream resume)	Multi-region data replication (storage) Exactly-once semantics Guaranteed message ordering Connection state recovery (stream resume)

Security
API key authentication The simplest way to authenticate. Involves using private API keys that you can usually create and edit via a dashboard. Recommended to be used server-side, as private API keys shouldn’t be shared with untrusted parties. Explore Ably's implementation of API key authentication		N/A
Token-based authentication Which popular token-based authentication mechanisms do Amazon EventBridge and NSQ support? Note that token-based authentication is usually the recommended strategy on the client-side as it provides more fine-grained access control and limits the risk of credentials being compromised. Explore Ably's implementation of token-based authentication	Ephemeral tokens JWTs	Ephemeral tokens JWTs
Configurable rules and permissions Which types of configurable rules and permissions do Amazon EventBridge and NSQ support? Explore Ably's configurable rules and permissions	API keys rules and permissions Operation rules and permissions Admin rights	API keys rules and permissions Operation rules and permissions Admin rights
Message encryption Which types of message encryption do Amazon EventBridge and NSQ support? Explore Ably's message encryption mechanisms	Encrypted at rest Encrypted in transit Message payload encryption	Encrypted at rest Encrypted in transit Message payload encryption
Formal certifications Which formal certifications are Amazon EventBridge and NSQ compliant with? Explore Ably's security and compliance for our pub/sub messaging platform	SOC 2 TYPE I SOC 2 Type II HIPAA EU GDPR	SOC 2 TYPE I SOC 2 Type II HIPAA EU GDPR

Pricing & Support
Free package What do the free packages offered by Amazon EventBridge and NSQ consist of? Explore Ably's free package for our pub/sub messaging platform	All state change events published by AWS services are free.	N/A
Pricing model How are the Amazon EventBridge and NSQ pricing models calculated? Explore Ably's pricing model for our pub/sub messaging platform	Pricing is calculated monthly and it’s based on the number of events published to EventBridge, the number of invocations (events consumed from EventBridge), events replayed, and schema discovery. Here are the costs: - Publishing to EventBridge is $1.00/million events - Consuming from EventBridge is $0.20 per million events - Event replay costs $0.10 per GB for processing, and $0.023 per GB for storage Note that we have used US East (Ohio) as a reference point, but the pricing values may differ across regions.	N/A
Enterprise package What benefits do the Amazon EventBridge and NSQ enterprise packages offer? Explore Ably's enterprise package for our pub/sub messaging platform	There is no Amazon EventBridge-specific enterprise package.	N/A
Community Reviewed by 3+ independent developers Explore Ably's community support channel for our pub/sub messaging platform	2.50 / 5 Presence on multiple channels / 5 Size and activity / 5 “Unlike other AWS communities, the EventBridge community seems to be quite small. There are some discussions happening on StackOverflow, but on other communication channels, such as Gitter, there’s nothing happening. There are about a dozen public projects posted on GitHub, showing, for example, how to use EventBridge with Lambdas to send alerts to Slack”.	3.50 / 5 Presence on multiple channels / 5 Size and activity / 5 “Nsqio nsq has 19k stars on GitHub. It's where the community resides. Historically the community has been active, but decreasing lately. There are a lot of unofficial SDKs for different languages and over 200 questions on StackOverflow. The latest version was released in August of 2019, therefore it seems like the project is merely being maintained, with no active feature development."
Support What types of support options and response times do Amazon EventBridge and NSQ offer? Explore Ably's support options for our pub/sub messaging platform	General support options Email, support ticket, phone, technical documentation, community support (e.g. forums or Stack Overflow). Enterprise support Amazon offers an enterprise package, which includes 24/7 phone, email, and chat access to Cloud Support Engineers, Infrastructure Event Management support, and a designated technical account manager. Response time < 24 hours for general guidance queries < 1 hour for Production system down incidents (only applies to Business & Enterprise support packages).	N/A

Pricing & Support

Free package

What do the free packages offered by Amazon EventBridge and NSQ consist of?

Explore Ably's free package for our pub/sub messaging platform

All state change events published by AWS services are free.

N/A

Pricing model

How are the Amazon EventBridge and NSQ pricing models calculated?

Explore Ably's pricing model for our pub/sub messaging platform

Pricing is calculated monthly and it’s based on the number of events published to EventBridge, the number of invocations (events consumed from EventBridge), events replayed, and schema discovery. Here are the costs:

- Publishing to EventBridge is $1.00/million events

- Consuming from EventBridge is $0.20 per million events

- Event replay costs $0.10 per GB for processing, and $0.023 per GB for storage

Note that we have used US East (Ohio) as a reference point, but the pricing values may differ across regions.

N/A

Enterprise package

What benefits do the Amazon EventBridge and NSQ enterprise packages offer?

Explore Ably's enterprise package for our pub/sub messaging platform

There is no Amazon EventBridge-specific enterprise package.

N/A

Community

Reviewed by 3+ independent developers

Explore Ably's community support channel for our pub/sub messaging platform

2.50 / 5

Presence on multiple channels / 5

Size and activity / 5

“Unlike other AWS communities, the EventBridge community seems to be quite small. There are some discussions happening on StackOverflow, but on other communication channels, such as Gitter, there’s nothing happening. There are about a dozen public projects posted on GitHub, showing, for example, how to use EventBridge with Lambdas to send alerts to Slack”.

3.50 / 5

Presence on multiple channels / 5

Size and activity / 5

“Nsqio nsq has 19k stars on GitHub. It's where the community resides. Historically the community has been active, but decreasing lately. There are a lot of unofficial SDKs for different languages and over 200 questions on StackOverflow. The latest version was released in August of 2019, therefore it seems like the project is merely being maintained, with no active feature development."

Support

What types of support options and response times do Amazon EventBridge and NSQ offer?

Explore Ably's support options for our pub/sub messaging platform

General support options

Email, support ticket, phone, technical documentation, community support (e.g. forums or Stack Overflow).

Enterprise support

Amazon offers an enterprise package, which includes 24/7 phone, email, and chat access to Cloud Support Engineers, Infrastructure Event Management support, and a designated technical account manager.

Response time

< 24 hours for general guidance queries

< 1 hour for Production system down incidents (only applies to Business & Enterprise support packages).

N/A

Disclaimer: The information presented for Amazon EventBridge was last updated on 26 March 2021 and on 28 February 2021 for NSQ. It is possible that some details may now be out of date. If you think that’s the case, please let us know so we can update them. In any case, you should not rely solely on the information presented here and must check with each provider before deciding to integrate or buy any of these two solutions.

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