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What is the distinction between MQTT 5 and HiveMQ 4?

HiveMQ announced the accessibility of HiveMQ 4, the new discharge of the famous enterprise MQTT messaging platform used by companies building IoT applications under the Azure IoT hub.

HiveMQ 4 delivers complete maintenance for the new MQTT 5 specification making it possible to create more reliable and scalable IoT applications under MQTT.

The new release also presents the HiveMQ marketplace and extension structure, allowing customers to integrate easily.

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Facts about HiveMQ:

  • Digital transformation of industries requires companies to adopt a new variety of technology to meet the objections of moving data between linked devices and enterprise systems under MQTT.
  • HiveMQ produces a new category of software that directs the critical challenges of deploying business-critical IoT applications that are fast, reliable, and cost-efficient under MQTT.
  • The new HiveMQ 4 release expands on its core services for moving data between connected devices and enterprise systems under the Azure IoT hub.

Based on the MQTT protocol, HiveMQ 4 helps the new MQTT 5 statements. The new MQTT 5 factors now assisted in HiveMQ include the following:

  • MQTT payload format descriptions, including the content type of format measure, which makes it easier to combine MQTT messages with enterprise systems
  • Shared subscriptions of MQTT messages make it possible to create scalable enterprise MQTT client services.
  • User properties are now added to MQTT messages, so it is possible to increase the MQTT protocol to place the business requirements of an IoT application under the Azure IoT hub.
  • Session and Message expiry make developing IoT applications that transfer data with limited lifetime and usefulness easier, making the overall system more reliable and scalable under MQTT.
  • Negative acknowledgments allow an MQTT broker to advise a client why a relationship has been broken under MQTT. It will enable the client to take remedial action to recombine with the broker under the Azure IoT hub.

What is HiveMQ?

HiveMQ is an MQTT-based messaging platform for fast, efficient, and reliable data movement to and from connected IoT devices under MQTT.

It uses the MQTT protocol for an instant, bi-directional data push between your device and your enterprise systems under the Azure IoT hub. HiveMQ is built to direct some of the critical technical challenges organizations face when building new IoT applications, including:

  • Building reliable and scalable business-critical IoT applications under MQTT
  • Lower cost of action through efficient use of hardware, network, and cloud resources under the Azure IoT hub
  • Integrating IoT data into existing enterprise systems

Other concepts of HiveMQ:

  • “HiveMQ’s subsistence for MQTT 5 is an important stage for our customers who must deploy business-critical applications”. MQTT 5 directs some of the shortcomings in the MQTT agreement that made it challenging to scale a reliable MQTT-based system under the Azure IoT hub.
  • HiveMQ 4 has executed all these new factors, and we appreciate having a 100% compliant MQTT implementation under MQTT.
  • HiveMQ 4 also presents an advanced open API and HiveMQ forum to make integrating HiveMQ into existing enterprise systems easier under MQTT.
  • The HiveMQ forum permits customers to gain access to pre-built extensions from HiveMQ. In the future, the HiveMQ community will likely contribute additional extensions to the HiveMQ marketplace under MQTT.
  • HiveMQ 4 is the next-generation MQTT-based messaging platform for fast, efficient, and reliable data movement to and from connected IoT devices under the Azure IoT hub. It uses the MQTT protocol for an instant, the bi-directional data push between your device and your enterprise systems under MQTT.
  • HiveMQ 4 delivers first-class support for MQTT 5, the successor of the most popular IoT protocol, MQTT 3. It is 100% compliant with the MQTT specification. All new and optional MQTT 5 features and functionality are supported out of the box under the Azure IoT hub.
  • Long-awaited new features like User Properties, Negative Acknowledgements, and Topic Aliases are used with the new HiveMQ version.
  • Special proprietary features HiveMQ has pioneered for MQTT 3, like shared subscriptions, message expiry, and session expiry, are now part of the new MQTT 5 specification and are available for all clients, independent of the MQTT version under the Azure IoT hub.

MQTT 5 features overview:

Large-scale system performance:

The communication between thousands, if not millions, of devices, is now more streamlined. There are no protocol constraints, but MQTT 5, an appropriate architecture, is required to organize many devices under the Azure IoT hub.

Reporting of errors: 

The return code in the MQTT 5.0 protocol has been renamed to a reason code, which can indicate a broader range of failures under MQTT.

Everyday interactions are implemented:

The current version has standardized the many ways devices interact with one another. The system now includes the ability to define the capabilities of participating devices and how they respond to queries under the Azure IoT hub.

Extensibility mechanisms have been included: 

Custom properties and the content type or payload format are now specified under MQTT.

Better support:

Particularly for smaller users who want to use this latest protocol version to increase their productivity under the Azure IoT hub.