ZeroMQ (also known as ØMQ, 0MQ, or zmq) looks like an embeddable networking library but acts like a concurrency framework. It gives you sockets that carry atomic messages across various transports like in-process, inter-process, TCP, and multicast. You can connect sockets N-to-N with patterns like fan-out, pub-sub, task distribution, and request-reply. It's fast enough to be the fabric for clustered products. Its asynchronous I/O model gives you scalable multicore applications, built as asynchronous message-processing tasks. It has a score of language APIs and runs on most operating systems. Libzmq is mainly written in C++98 with some optional C++11-fragments. For configuration either autotools or CMake is employed. For Linux users, pre-built binary packages are available for most distributions. Note that DRAFT APIs can change at any time without warning, pick a STABLE build to avoid having them enabled.
Features
- Connect your code in any language, on any platform
- Smart patterns like pub-sub, push-pull, and client-server
- Asynchronous I/O engines, in a tiny library
- Carries messages across inproc, IPC, TCP, UDP, TIPC, multicast and WebSocket
- Backed by a large and active open source community
- Explains how to use ØMQ with 60+ diagrams and 750 examples in 28 languages