Throughput performance of popular JMS servers.

ABSTRACTThe Java Messaging Service (JMS) facilitates communication among distributed software components according to the publish/subscribe principle. If the subscribers install filter rules on the JMS server, JMS can be used as a message routing platform, but it is not clear whether its message throughput is sufficiently high to support large-scale systems. In this paper, we investigate the capacity of three high performance JMS server implementations: FioranoMQ, SunMQ, and WebsphereMQ. In contrast to other studies, we focus on the message throughput in the presence of filters and show that filtering reduces the performance significantly. We present models for the message processing time of each server and validate them by measurement.