emqx4.3

Overview

emqttd is a massively scalable and clusterable MQTT V3.1/V3.1.1 broker written in Erlang/OTP. emqttd support both MQTT V3.1/V3.1.1 protocol specification with extended features.

emqttd requires Erlang R17+ to build.

Goals

emqttd is aimed to provide a solid, enterprise grade, extensible open-source MQTT broker for IoT, M2M and Mobile applications that need to support ten millions of concurrent MQTT clients.

• Easy to install
• Massively scalable
• Easy to extend
• Solid stable

Features

• Full MQTT V3.1/V3.1.1 protocol specification support
• QoS0, QoS1, QoS2 Publish and Subscribe
• Session Management and Offline Messages
• Retained Messages Support
• Last Will Message Support
• TCP/SSL Connection Support
• MQTT Over Websocket(SSL) Support
• HTTP Publish API Support
• $SYS/brokers/# Support
• Client Authentication with clientId, ipaddress
• Client Authentication with username, password.
• Client ACL control with ipaddress, clientid, username.
• Cluster brokers on several servers.
• Bridge brokers locally or remotelly
• 500K+ concurrent clients connections per server
• Extensible architecture with Hooks, Modules and Plugins
• Passed eclipse paho interoperability tests

Modules

• emqttd_auth_clientid - Authentication with ClientIds
• emqttd_auth_username - Authentication with Username and Password
• emqttd_auth_ldap - Authentication with LDAP
• emqttd_mod_presence - Publish presence message to $SYS topics when client connected or disconnected
• emqttd_mod_autosub - Subscribe topics when client connected
• emqttd_mod_rewrite - Topics rewrite like HTTP rewrite module

Plugins

• emqttd_plugin_template - Plugin template and demo
• emqttd_dashboard - Web Dashboard
• emqttd_plugin_mysql - Authentication with MySQL
• emqttd_plugin_pgsql - Authentication with PostgreSQL
• emqttd_plugin_kafka - Publish MQTT Messages to Kafka
• emqttd_plugin_redis - Redis Plugin

Dashboard

The broker released a simple web dashboard in 0.10.0 version.

Address: http://host:18083

Design

QuickStart

Download binary packeges for linux, mac and freebsd from http://emqtt.io/downloads.

For example:

unzip emqttd-ubuntu64-0.10.0-beta-20150820.zip && cd emqttd

# start console
./bin/emqttd console

# start as daemon
./bin/emqttd start

# check status
./bin/emqttd_ctl status

# stop
./bin/emqttd stop

Build from source:

git clone https://github.com/emqtt/emqttd.git

cd emqttd && make && make dist

GetStarted

Read emqtt wiki for detailed installation and configuration guide.

Benchmark

Benchmark 0.6.1-alpha on a ubuntu/14.04 server with 8 cores, 32G memory from QingCloud:

200K+ Connections, 200K+ Topics, 20K+ In/Out Messages/sec, 20Mbps+ In/Out with 8G Memory, 50%CPU/core

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Contributors

• @callbay
• @hejin1026
• @desoulter
• @turtleDeng
• @Hades32
• @huangdan
• @phanimahesh
• @dvliman

Author

Feng Lee feng@emqtt.io