HiveMQ is available in 3 different editions: HiveMQ Enterprise, HiveMQ Professional and HiveMQ Community. The Enterprise and Professional editions are commercially licensed and available for evaluation. HiveMQ CE is available for download under the Apache v2 open source license.
HiveMQ Editions Comparison
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| MQTT Engine | |||
| Full MQTT 3.1 support |  |
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| Full MQTT 3.1.1 support | |
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| Full MQTT 5 support | |
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| MQTT version compatibility layer | |
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| Websockets | |
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| IPv4 & IPv6 | |
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| TLS / SSL | |
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| Linear Scaling Shared Subscription Sharding | |
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| Linux Epoll Support | |
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| Proxy Protocol | |
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| Extensions | |||
| HiveMQ Extension Marketplace | |
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| Community Extension SDK | |
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| Enterprise Extension SDK | |
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| Extension Hot Reload | |
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| HiveMQ Enterprise Extensions | |
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| Clustering | |||
| Cluster Support | |
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| Zero Downtime Upgrades | |
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| Elastic and linear scalability at runtime | |
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| Pluggable Auto-Discovery | |
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| Autoscaling support | |
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| Cluster Overload Protection | |
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| HiveMQ Control Center | |||
| Real-time monitoring Dashboard | |
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| MQTT Client Drill-Down Analysis | |
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| Client Event History | |
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| Shared Subscription Drill-Down Analysis | |
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| Retained Messages Drill-Down Analysis | |
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| User Authentication with Third Party Systems (Separately available feature) |
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| Backup & Restore | |
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| Advanced Analysis | |
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| Trace Recordings | |
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| Role Based Access Control | |
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| Security | |||
| TLS / SSL for MQTT | |
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| Pluggable Authentication | |
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| Authorization and Permissions | |
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| Native TLS / SSL | |
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| OCSP Stapling | |
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| Secure cluster communication with TLS / SSL | |
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| Audit Logs | |
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| Connection Overload Protection | |
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| Handshake Overload Protection | |
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| Monitoring | |||
| MQTT Message Metrics | |
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| JMX Monitoring | |
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| Open Source Monitoring Extensions | |
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| 800+ Monitoring Metrics | |
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| Grafana Dashboards | |
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| REST API | |
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| K8s Operator | |
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| MQTT CLI - Client Export | |
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| Integration with Apache Kafka (Separately available feature) |
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| Bridging to another MQTT broker cluster (Separately available feature) |
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| Software License | |||
| License | Apache v2 | Commercial | Commercial |
| Technical Support | |||
| Support | Community Forum | 24/7 Support | 24/7 Support |
| OSS Project Page |