Next-generation unified communication infrastructure for AI, IoT, and big data

Introduction & Vision • Features • Roadmap • Architecture • Quick Start • Documentation • Contributing • Community

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⚠️ Development Status RobustMQ is in early development and not production-ready. We are currently in Phase 1 focusing on building a solid architectural foundation. See Roadmap for detailed development plan and timeline.

🌟 Introduction & Vision

RobustMQ is a next-generation unified messaging infrastructure built with Rust for AI, IoT, and data-intensive systems. It is designed to deliver high throughput, predictable latency, and low operational complexity from edge devices to cloud clusters.

🎯 Why RobustMQ

• ⚡ High-performance core: Rust-native implementation with low latency and low memory overhead.
• 🔁 Unified protocol access: MQTT + Kafka compatibility in one system, reducing architecture duplication.
• 🧠 AI-ready data path: Object storage integration and multi-tier cache to reduce data loading bottlenecks.
• 🌍 Edge-to-cloud consistency: One architecture for edge gateways, regional clusters, and central cloud.

🧭 Vision

Enable data to move freely and efficiently across AI agents, training clusters, IoT devices, and analytics platforms through one unified messaging layer.

🏗️ Workload Fit

• 🤖 AI workloads: Lightweight topics for agent communication, shared subscription for elastic training consumers.
• 📡 IoT workloads: MQTT ingestion with Kafka consumption on the same data plane (MQTT in / Kafka out).
• 📊 Data workloads: Flexible storage modes for balancing throughput, durability, and cost.

🗺️ RobustMQ Development Roadmap

🚀 Long-term Vision

Enable data to flow freely across AI training clusters, millions of Agents, IoT devices, and the cloud — via the optimal path, at the lowest latency, and with minimal cost.

✨ Roadmap

• Phase 1: Foundation (Completed) — Built a scalable technical architecture with solid, streamlined, and abstraction-friendly code implementation. Established a robust foundation for multi-protocol adaptation, pluggable storage, extensibility, and elasticity.

• Phase 2: MQTT Broker (Initial Release) — Delivered a stable, high-performance MQTT Broker with MQTT 3.x/5.0 protocol support, optimized for edge deployment with package size under 20MB. Core protocol capabilities are in place and will continue to evolve in future releases.

• Phase 3: Kafka Protocol & AI Capabilities (Starting) — With the MQTT Broker initially complete, now launching Kafka protocol adaptation and AI capability development. Prioritizing validation of AI training data caching acceleration and million-level lightweight topic feasibility, using AI workloads to drive Kafka protocol implementation; progressively building out full standard Kafka protocol compatibility on this foundation.

✨ Features

• ⚙️ Unified Messaging Layer: MQTT 3.1/3.1.1/5.0 + Kafka compatibility, enabling MQTT in / Kafka out in one platform.
• 🚀 Performance by Design: Rust implementation, low memory usage, low latency, and no GC pause behavior.
• 🧠 AI Data Acceleration: S3/MinIO integration with multi-tier caching (memory/SSD/object storage) to improve data path efficiency.
• 🤖 Agent-scale Topics: Support for massive lightweight topic counts with isolation and observability per workload.
• 🔄 Elastic Consumption Model: Shared subscription to scale consumers beyond rigid partition-concurrency coupling.
• 💾 Flexible Storage Modes: Memory, hybrid, persistent, and tiered storage strategies configurable per topic.
• 🌐 Edge-to-Cloud Deployment: Consistent runtime model for edge nodes and cloud clusters, with offline buffering + sync.
• 🛡️ Ops-friendly Architecture: Single-binary deployment, built-in Raft consensus, and simplified operations.

🚀 Quick Start

One-Line Installation

# Install and start RobustMQ
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robustmq/robustmq/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
broker-server start

Quick Test

# Test MQTT connection
mqttx pub -h localhost -p 1883 -t "test/topic" -m "Hello RobustMQ!"
mqttx sub -h localhost -p 1883 -t "test/topic"

Web Dashboard

Access http://localhost:8080 for cluster monitoring and management.

Try Online Demo

• MQTT Server: 117.72.92.117:1883 (admin/robustmq)
• Web Dashboard: http://demo.robustmq.com

📚 For detailed installation and usage guides, see our Documentation

🔧 Development

# Clone and build
git clone https://github.com/robustmq/robustmq.git
cd robustmq
cargo run --package cmd --bin broker-server

# Build packages
make build              # Basic build
make build-full         # With frontend

📚 For detailed build options, see our Build Guide

📚 Documentation

• 📖 Official Documentation - Comprehensive guides and API references
• 🚀 Quick Start Guide - Get up and running in minutes
• 🔧 MQTT Documentation - MQTT-specific features and configuration
• 💻 Command Reference - CLI commands and usage
• 🎛️ Web Console - Management interface

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Check out our Contribution Guide and Good First Issues.

🌐 Community

• 🎮 Discord - Real-time chat and collaboration
• 🐛 GitHub Issues - Bug reports and feature requests
• 💡 GitHub Discussions - General discussions

🇨🇳 Chinese Community

• 微信群: Join our WeChat group for Chinese-speaking users

  

• 开发者微信: If the group QR code has expired, welcome to follow our official WeChat account!

  

📄 License

RobustMQ is licensed under the Apache License 2.0, which strikes a balance between open collaboration and allowing you to use the software in your projects, whether open source or proprietary.

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