Messaging services

Hikube provides managed messaging services for application decoupling, event streaming and asynchronous communication.

Availability

Service	Availability
RabbitMQ	Self-service in the Hikube console, menu DB & Messaging → RabbitMQ
Kafka	On request from support
NATS	On request from support

Comparison

Service	Protocol	Model	Persistence	Use cases
RabbitMQ	AMQP	Queue	Yes	Task queues, RPC, complex routing
Kafka	Binary TCP	Pub/Sub with log	Yes (distributed log)	Event streaming, data pipelines
NATS	Text TCP	Pub/Sub + Request/Reply	Optional (JetStream)	Microservices, IoT, edge

Available services

RabbitMQ

AMQP message broker with flexible routing and persistent queues. Available as self-service in the console.

• AMQP
• Queues
• Console

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Kafka

Distributed event streaming platform for real-time data pipelines. On request.

• Streaming
• Pub/Sub

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NATS

Lightweight, high-performance messaging system for cloud-native architectures. On request.

• Cloud-native
• Lightweight

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