[rabbitmq-discuss] rabbitmq cluster failover for persistent queues

Sun Jul 26 18:45:11 BST 2009

Thanks Arvind.  That seems to confirm our belief that rabbitmq doesn't
handle failover of session state at the moment.  So in the case of competing
consumers taking messages from a rabbitmq broker cluster it sounds like
once-and-only-once delivery is somewhat up to the application to implement
by arranging for each message to be delivered to redundant queues (ie. 2
separate queues with similar bindings residing on different hosts), then
coordinate among your consumers to ensure once-and-only-once delivery using
a database or simply to make your workflow idempotent with respect to the
duplicate messages.

Ideally, I'd like my broker cluster to handle this.  I'm looking into apache
qpid as it seems to be more mature with respect to availability.  The main
downside with rabbitmq for me right now is the lack of at least an option
for session state replication.  It sounds like a future release of rabbitmq
with pluggable persisters will make distributed session state possible via
mnesia.
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