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Apache Kafka vs RabbitMQ

Apache Kafka has 33,125 GitHub stars vs 13,737 for RabbitMQ.

GitHub API · captured 2026-07-07

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Which ships more often, Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ?

In the 90 days before 2026-07-07, Apache Kafka published 0 releases and RabbitMQ published 7.

	Apache Kafka	RabbitMQ
License	Apache-2.0	—
Latest version	—	—
GitHub stars	33,125	13,737
GitHub forks	15,327	4,018
Open issues	436	252
Releases (90d)	0	7
npm downloads (week)	—	—

Sources: official APIs (GitHub, npm, PyPI, crates.io). Capture dates shown on each tool page. Missing value = the source does not publish it ("—", never estimated).