Actually, ZeroMQ is brokerless by design[1] which prevents a hop in all communications. The design is slightly more complex, but the speed increase is very real

Actually, ZeroMQ is brokerless by design[1] which prevents a hop in all communications. The design is slightly more complex, but the speed increase is very real. [1] http://www.zeromq.org/whitepapers:brokerless http://www.zeromq.org/whitepapers:brokerless