NanoMQ

What it is^{[2, 3]}

Open-source edge messaging platform from EMQ: an MQTT broker for IoT/IIoT plus a lightweight messaging bus for software-defined vehicles. Open-sourced in January 2021.

License^[3]

MIT License.

Protocols^{[2, 3]}

Fully supports MQTT 5.0, 3.1.1 and 3.1; TLS/SSL; gateways for ZeroMQ, SOME/IP and DDS; NNG pub/sub bridging.

Footprint^{[1, 3]}

Pure C on NNG with an actor model, asynchronous I/O and multi-threading; booting footprint under 200 KB in the minimum feature set. The project claims up to 10x Mosquitto's throughput on multi-core CPUs (vendor claim).

Edge-to-cloud^{[1, 2]}

MQTT bridges to multiple clouds over TCP or QUIC, plus an AWS IoT Core bridge; built-in message persistence resumes uploading after a connection loss.

Data processing^{[1, 2]}

SQL-based rule engine, eKuiper integration for stream processing at the edge, WebHooks and HTTP APIs.

Platforms^{[2, 3]}

Docker image (emqx/nanomq), Linux and Windows packages, or build from source on POSIX platforms (x86_64 and ARM). Latest release 0.25.7 (Oct 21, 2026).

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