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yuanzhongqiao/rocketmq

This system is a distributed message queue platform that manages message storage, routing, and delivery through a broker and controller architecture. It provides comprehensive client-side APIs for producing and consuming messages, supporting patterns such as transactional messaging, ordered delivery, and high-performance POP consumption. The system also features a proxy layer for gRPC and remoting protocols, enabling flexible integration and cluster management.

54.2

Adequate · 5 August 2026

185k

lines of production code

Java

primary language

6

bus factor · 641 authors in all

2

measurements over time

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How it got here

2013–2016 · broker and client feature expansion

This period focused on significantly expanding the RocketMQ broker and client capabilities, introducing new consumption modes like POP and LitePull, and enhancing broker features such as cold read control, transaction tracking, and persistent storage via RocksDB. The client library was also modernized with new APIs, hooks, and fault tolerance mechanisms, while the build system was upgraded to support Bazel alongside Maven.

53 changes

2017–2018 · ACL, filtering, and tracing features

This period focused on implementing core security and observability features, specifically introducing Access Control List (ACL) support, SQL92 message filtering, and comprehensive message tracing with OpenTracing integration. The work also included significant expansion of unit test coverage across the client, broker, and filter modules to ensure the stability of these new capabilities.

55 changes

2019–2022 · Proxy and Controller Architecture

This period focused on introducing the Controller module for high-availability broker management and building a comprehensive gRPC v2 Proxy layer. The work established a new service-oriented architecture for the proxy, supporting features like request-response, scheduled messages, and transactional messaging via both gRPC and remoting protocols.

75 changes

2023 · observability and storage features

This period focused on introducing new capabilities for tiered storage and message receipt handling, alongside enhanced observability through OpenTelemetry metrics. The work also included significant test coverage for the new components and access control mechanisms.

7 changes

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  • The description of this project is derived from its own commit history, not from its README.
  • The score is its highest published measurement, taken on 5 August 2026 at a pinned commit. It is not a live figure and does not change until the project is measured again.
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  • Scored under rubric rubric-2026.08.19. Score the same commit under that rubric and you get the same number.
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