Archive for the ‘Apples and Oranges’ Category

Apples and Oranges: Security, Authenticity and Queue Permissions

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

This is part 6 of a 6 part blog series where our MD Raph Cohn attempts to answer our most often asked question…Is StormMQ the same as Amazon SQS? In this part Raph deals with perhaps the most important aspect of any enterprise architecture...security. Security, Authenticity and Queue Permissions Every messaging systems offers ...

Apples and Oranges: Message Properties

Monday, January 17th, 2011

This is part 5 of a 6 part blog series where our MD Raph Cohn attempts to answer our most often asked question…Is StormMQ the same as Amazon SQS? In this part Raph deals with message properties, why you need them, how you might use them and if StormMQ and Amazon ...

Apples and Oranges: Messaging Idioms

Friday, January 14th, 2011

This is part 4 of a 6 part blog series where our MD Raph Cohn attempts to answer our most often asked question…Is StormMQ the same as Amazon SQS? In this part Raph deals with some simple enterprise message queue idioms and which ones are supported by StormMQ and which ones ...

Apples and Oranges: Acknowledgements and Transactions in Amazon SQS and StormMQ

Sunday, January 9th, 2011

This is part 3 of a 6 part blog series where our MD Raph Cohn attempts to answer our most often asked question…Is StormMQ the same as Amazon SQS? In this part Raph deals with Acknowledgments and Transactions....these are the features that seperate enterprise messaging systems and Amazon SQS. Acknowledgements and Transactions ...

Apples and Oranges: Legal

Friday, January 7th, 2011

This is part 2 of a 6 part blog series where our MD Raph Cohn attempts to answer our most often asked question...Is StormMQ the same as Amazon SQS? In this part Raph deals with the legal issues and tries to answer the biggest question in cloud computing.... Dude, Where's ...

Apples and Oranges: Performance

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

We are often asked to explain the difference between our StormMQ service and the Amazon Web Services SQS service. The reality is that we are significantly different, it’s like comparing apples and oranges. After a recent team meeting our MD Raph Cohn sat down and wrote six articles that describe these ...