IBM DB Persistence Model - ibm-mq

I am trying to understand the persistence model of IBM MQ. I realize that the messages are stored in file based system but is there a way I can store the files in DB. I have come across article that states that the messages can be stored in the DB2 database, but I would like to know if I can store in other databases such as Oracle DB or SQLite or No-SQL Db's.

You may be misinterpreting the article. (A link would be nice.) Early versions of MQ were closely intertwined with IBM's database at the time and much of the product retains traces of that heritage in names, sizes of data structures, and some functional constraints.
However modern MQ's primary use of database is in the coupling facility in support of shared queues, and this is z/OS only. However that's the exception and for the vast majority of MQ versions and platforms you don't have the ability to select the queue persistence mechanism.
Remember that IBM's MQ was never intended to be a queueing front-end database client. MQ was invented to address problems of synchronous communication in which the outage of a single component caused entire systems to fail. The purpose of MQ was so that the application could treat the network as if it was 100% reliable (which was far from the case back in the 1980's). In order to achieve that MQ kept all critical operations local to the host on which it was installed and minimized external dependencies to things that were the most reliable: POSIX IPC and locally-mounted filesystems.
Some more recent message transports, especially JMS providers, give you the option of selecting a persistence store and even allowing it to be remote. Some are barely more than a JMS API over a database client. Though each of these approaches has valid use cases, IBM MQ has retained its focus on ultimate speed and enterprise-grade reliability.
Other IBM products such as the WAS Messaging Engine, MQTT, MQ Light, Sterling and others exist to fill some of the other requirement spaces. As for MQ, no there's no option to pick your persistence store other than the on the z/OS platform where your options are mostly related to the coupling facility.

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ZeroMQ vs Oracle queuing

I'm junior backend developer and now I'm working on a project about bank, which is a distributed system. What I knew before was that there were some message library such as ZeroMQ to realize the communication between components in a distributed system. But now, in the project, they used oracle queuing.
My colleague told me that this was better because we had no risk to lose any message to send even if processes die accidently.
My questions:Q1: If Oracle queuing is better, when should we use things like ZeroMQ?
andQ2: What is the disadvantage of Oracle queuing, comparing with ZeroMQ?
Your colleague is right here, because Oracle AQ comes with persistence and zeroMQ is in-memory. You'd use zeroMQ if you need max messages per second (millions). Price isn't a thing, because Oracle doesn't charge extra for AQ, it's even free with Oracle XE.
If your application relies on Oracle already, there are no disadvantages putting the messaging into Oracle.

can I develop a publish subscribe system without using MOM

I am trying to develop a publish/subscribe system.
To this end, I have read some papers and articles regarding it.
And they all talk about Messaging service as an integral part of publish/subscribe system.
My question is, can I develop a publish subscribe system without using MOM like JMS?
Or am I missing or oversimplifying things?
I do not think you are oversimplifying things. There are stand-alone products available that provide advanced functionality based on publish/subscribe, without being part of a larger MOM system.
One of them is a group of products implementing the Data Distribution Service (DDS) specification, as standardized by the Object Management Group (OMG). Check out this Wikipedia entry for a very brief introduction and list of references.
DDS supports many advanced data management features like a strong-typed and content aware databus, distributed state management and historical data access. Its rich set of Quality of Service settings allows to off-load a lot of the complexity from your applications to the middleware. This is all based on the publish/subscribe paradigm.
If you would tell more about your application, then I might be able to point you to similar use cases using this technology -- if you are interested.
It depends what you mean by "MOM". If you think MOM = JMS then yes, there are plenty of pub/sub applications which are not JMS servers (off the top of my head): 0MQ, TIBCO Rendezvous and the many AMQP implementations around.
I guess my definition of MOM is an infrastructure for reliably getting a message from one system to another in an asynchronous manner. Pub/sub is a feature on top of the message transport which allows a message to be distributed to multiple other systems. Once you get beyond the point of opening a socket and stuffing a bunch of bytes down it, I would argue you are in the realm of MOM.
So, no you don't need JMS to do pub/sub....there are plenty of open-source and closed-source alternatives out there. Which one depends on your requirements and skills.
You can look at multicast that provides one to many communication. Multicast does not require MOM, instead it requires multicast enabled IP network. Usually the network routers take care of creating copies of message and delivering messages to destinations.

Advantages of HornetQ vs ActiveMQ vs Qpid

I was browsing for an open source messaging software and after some good bit of research I came across these three products. I've taken these out for a preliminary test drive, having had them handle messages for queues and topics, and from what I've read all three of these products are good picks for an Open Source messaging solution for most companies. What I was wondering was what are the advantages that these products may have over one another? What I'm particularly interested in is messaging throughput, including persistent messaging throughput, security, scalability, reliability, support, routing capabilities, administrative options such as metrics and monitoring, and generally just how well each program runs in a large business environment.
Check out http://queues.io/
From their site:
The goal is to create a quality list of queues with a collection of articles, blog posts, slides, and videos about them. After reading the linked articles, you should have a good idea about: the pros and cons of each queue, a basic understanding of how the queue works, and what each queue is trying to achieve. Basically, you should have all the information you need to decide which queue will best fit your needs.
'messaging' covers a lot of options - and there must be at least a dozen different types of technologies that could be the right answer - having built many production messaging environments, using a variety of technologies/approaches, having a better understanding your requirements would help.
are you needing subject-based subscriptions? do you need multicast delivery? do you need dynamic subscribers/listeners? would your listeners be requerying for best sources even after finding an acceptable publisher/feed?
do you need guaranteed delivery? delivery confirmation? is you publisher storing any undelivered messages, or do you need the messaging system to do that for you automagically? how often does your feed data go stale - e.g. email-ish alerts can be store-and-forward but real-time pricing data is only valid for a short interval (and then probably needs to go away rather than cause confusion)
how volatile is your network topology? are your subscribers (or publishers) expecting to live at a fixed address? or are they mobile devices? could they appear to you over more complex internetwork topologies requiring registration and possibly imposing routing restrictions? if so any idea the frequency of these topology changes?
do you only need a java interface? are any of your subscribers to be integrated into windows components (like feeds into excel)?
if you're only interested in experience comparing the similar products you named then perhaps you have already thought through these topics.
as to products, in my experience Tibco is still the leader in throughput and scalability, especially in a real-time environment. ibm MQ would be next, especially in a store-and-forward architecture. with both of those products you get a level of support on which you can justify betting a fundamental part of your business systems. there's a reason both of those have been around for a couple of decades.
another often overlooked option is Tuxedo - it provides not only messaging but a proven transactional capability that remains unparalleled. Oracle continue to be committed to this product and, again, the level of support available is second to none.
i love open sourced solutions and am always glad to find production quality software for free - but if you are creating a fundamental part of your business infrastructure then an active community still might not indicate whether a particular voluntary project is the best bet.
my 2c worth. hope it helps.
First, I am no expert in this, but maybe I can give you some thought hints.
ActiveMQ and Qpid are both under the Apache umbrella and are message queues. But Qpid is an implementation of the AMQP specification.
AMQP is a protocol specification, on the wire level, so messages can be exchanged with other AMQP message queues (e.g RabbitMQ).
ActiveMQ and HornetQ are queues that you can use with a JMS API. The Java Message Service is a specification on an API level.
But you have the option to access Qpid via a JMS API, too.
I think performance is a secondary thought. To have an active community is more important.
http://x-aeon.com/wp/2013/04/10/a-quick-message-queue-benchmark-activemq-rabbitmq-hornetq-qpid-apollo/
Benchmark includes some performance numbers for you to decide, with both persistent and transient results.

Commercial JMS/MOM implementations with non-Java client support?

So far I have seen non-Java client support only for open source message brokers like Apache ActiveMQ, JBoss HornetQ and Open Message Queue (OpenMQ).
Are there also closed-source products like WebSphere, WebLogic or Tibco which offer non-Java access to their MOM brokers, using a documented wire protocol (opposite to a closed-source binary client library) which allows to write clients in other languages?
This is getting more interesting as products (like WebLogic) are available in the (EC2) cloud so that developers can use the cloud instance to develop and test a client application without the need to purchase and install the full version.
I don't have a definitive answer because I specialize in WMQ exclusively. However, I believe the answer is "no" for the most part. (More on that in a minute.)
Regarding WMQ IBM makes available exit points to tailor the behavior of the channels, API calls and authorizations. Exits are very well documented and perform narrow functions within the scope of a particular action - i.e. receive a message, initiate a connection, etc. These are written in C and, more recently, Java. For the most part these are unused and customers I talk to generally cite complexity. They want something customizable through configuration and not through low-level code. I suspect other MOM vendors experience similar requirements from customers.
What does this have to do with your question? My take on this is that if customers are reluctant to code up exits with limited function, it seems far fetched that they would code up a full-featured and robust client that supports reliable message delivery, one- and two-phase commit, client-side exits, diagnostics, and all the other functionality that WMQ channels provide.
Assuming that this task was undertaken by an open-source team capable of that level of code, who would support it? the MOM vendors currently provide end-to-end support when using their proprietary clients. The notion of how a trouble ticket might be resolved when using a third-party client that is community-supported is a bit scary to many customer. For example, IBM supplies add-ons for WMQ called SupportPacs. Although there are SupportPacs that are fully supported and are considered product extensions, some of the SupportPacs are provided as-is. Many of my customers won't run as-is code even when it is supplied by the vendor.
Finally, there is the notion of the interface contract. WMQ supports a few verbs with a lot of options. The underlying channel protocol is MUCH more complex. When WMQ v7 came out, the channels had considerable new functionality and tuning. this was possible at this scale because the internals are not exposed to clients and so IBM was able to make massive changes without fear of negative impact to 3rd party clients. Exposing all of that would create dependencies on an order or two higher magnitude than exist with just the API's exposed.
So, according to my theory (I don't pretend to speak for the MQ development team here) the big MOM vendors have a vested interest in not exposing their channel protocols to independent developers. The new wrinkle here is AMQP which I alluded to above. It defines the wire protocol and allows each vendor to code a compliant product. Although this provides the opportunity you describe for open-source solutions, the ability of any one implementation to improve the product is limited by the fact that they don't own the protocol. For the time being though I don't expect you'll find any of the big MOM vendors exposing their wire protocols for 3rd party development. That said, this is just a guess and if I'm wrong, I'm sure someone here will jump in and provide the counter-example.

Platform independent streams

We have two systems, one based on JMS and another based on WebSphere MQ.
There is client A which sends a message to a topic configured in JMS. Another client B which receives this message through the Topic configured in WebSphere MQ.
How can I make this communication happen? What are the considerations while building this bridge? If bridge is the solution, how can I build it?
I assume from your description that one of the clients is written in Java (JMS) and the other one is written in an other language and both have access to the same queue. MQ-Series is a queuing product, JMS is a Java API (like JDBC is to relational databases). MQ-Series supports the JMS API so there is no problem in communciating messages. JMS will probably be a subset of possible MQ-Series features.
Make sure that the content can be interpreted by both parties. The standard way is to use XML in the message. But you could use any other format that both clients can understand. You could also use CSV (comma separated values), JSON (JavaScript object notation) and there are even cross platform binary formats like Hessian.
But if you could be more specific about the participants and the kind of information you want to communicate, you probably would get more specific answers.

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