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is an

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(ISO/IEC PRF 20922) publish–subscribe-based messaging protocol. It works on top of the

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TCP/IP. It is designed for connections with remote locations where a "small code footprint" is required or the network bandwidth is limited. The publish-subscribe messaging pattern requires a

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. All comparison categories use the stable version of each implementation listed in the overview section. The comparison is limited to features that relate to the MQTT protocol.

Overview

The following table lists MQTT both libraries and implementations, along with general information about each. A more complete list of MQTT implementations can be found o
GitHub

Protocol support

There are several versions of the

protocol currently standardized. Below is a list containing the more recent versions of the

protocol, with the organization that standardized them. * MQTT-SN v1.2, standardized by

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. * MQTT v3.1, standardized by Eurotech and

. * MQTT v3.1.1, standardized by

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and TCP. The security provided by

SSL/TLS Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network, such as the Internet. The protocol is widely used in applications such as email, instant messaging, and voice over IP, b ...

may be desirable depending on the type traffic being sent between devices, as MQTT transmits messages in the clear.

Quality of service levels offered

From the

page, quality of service (QoS) is described as,

Quality of service refers to traffic prioritization and resource reservation control mechanisms rather than the achieved service quality. Quality of service is the ability to provide different priority to different applications, users, or data flows, or to guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow.

A description of each QoS level is found below. #

Data transmission MQ Network protocols Telemetry Time series software Application layer protocols Message-oriented middleware Software comparisons