As far as I can see it looks like there is a possibility that a new version of ActiveMQ will be based on Apache Artemis in the future sometime, as in later on,

As far as I can see it looks like there is a possibility that a new version of ActiveMQ will be based on Apache Artemis in the future sometime, as in later on, maybe... Artemis claims to be really fast and solves some of the problems outlined in the RocketMQ motivation page you listed. It uses an append only journal file similar to Kafka and the clustering and failover story looked simple and reliable to me though I haven't tested it. Whether or not Artemis becomes the new version of ActiveMQ, RedHat have recently released a new version of their AMQ and it is based on Artemis. It supports AMQP 1.0, MQTT, STOMP, OpenWire, and HornetQ Core. https://developers.redhat.com/products/amq/overview/ https://developers.redhat.com/products/amq/overview/