Message Size

Message size affects performance because more data must be passed from producing client to broker and from broker to consuming client, and because for persistent messages a larger message must be stored.

However, by batching smaller messages into a single message, the routing and processing of individual messages can be minimized, providing an overall performance gain. In this case, information about the state of individual messages is lost.

In our tests we compared performance for persistent and non-persistent 1k, 10k, and 100k messages. We found that 100k messages were processed two to three times faster than 10k messages, and 10k messages were processed five to six times faster than 1k messages. For both persistent and non-persistent messages, the size of the message affected the processing rate much more than its delivery mode. For 1k messages, non-persistent messages were almost twice as fast; for 10k messages, non-persistent messages were about 33% faster; for 100k messages, non persistent messages were about 5% faster. In our tests all messages were sent to a queue destination and used the AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE acknowledgement mode.