NATS

NATS is a lightweight, subject-based messaging protocol designed for low-latency publish/subscribe and request-reply communication. FlowMQ supports the Core NATS protocol in the Enterprise Edition.

Enterprise Edition

NATS support is available exclusively in the FlowMQ Enterprise Edition.

Supported Features

Standard Core NATS clients
Subject-based publish/subscribe
* and > wildcard subscriptions
Queue groups
Request-reply messaging

Common Use Cases

Low-latency service messaging
Request-reply communication
Real-time event distribution
Microservice communication
Load-balanced message processing
Control-plane messaging

Limitations and Compatibility Notes

JetStream and related features are not available.