HiveMQ MQTT Broker
The Trusted Enterprise-Grade MQTT Broker
At the heart of the HiveMQ platform is the MQTT broker, an event-driven messaging platform designed for the fast, efficient, and reliable movement of data to and from connected IoT devices. The HiveMQ broker is 100% compliant with the MQTT protocol and purpose-built for the instant, bi-directional push of data between IoT devices and enterprise systems.
Business Impact of an Enterprise Grade Broker
99.999%
Uptime for Mission-Critical Operations
∞
Scalability to Billions of Data Points Without Re-Architecture
0%
Message Loss, Even During Outages
What is an Enterprise-Grade MQTT Broker?
An enterprise-grade MQTT broker is a mission-critical infrastructure component that enables secure, reliable, and scalable publish-subscribe communication between connected devices and enterprise systems. Unlike basic brokers, it offers guaranteed message delivery, high availability, fine-grained security, and elastic scalability, making it ideal for large-scale IoT deployments and real-time, data-driven operations.
HiveMQ Broker Key Benefits
HiveMQ Broker is a powerful, enterprise-grade MQTT platform that enables reliable, secure, and scalable data movement between connected devices and enterprise systems. It provides the foundation for event-driven architectures, ensuring seamless integration across distributed environments and powering real-time insights, automation, and digital transformation at scale.
Always-On Reliability
Keep critical systems running with 99.999% uptime. HiveMQ’s high availability clustering, persistent storage, and hot upgrades prevent downtime and ensure no data is lost even during infrastructure failures.
Secure, Compliant Data
Protect data in motion with enterprise-grade security, including TLS 1.2/1.3 encryption, mutual TLS, fine-grained access control, pluggable authentication (such as OAuth 2.0 and LDAP), and detailed audit logging.
Future-Proof Scalability
Scale confidently without re-architecting. HiveMQ delivers consistent performance across millions of connections and dynamically scales as you grow, proven by benchmarks of 200M concurrent connections and 1M messages per second.
Seamless Integration
Streamline enterprise integration by connecting IoT data to cloud, analytics, and business systems. HiveMQ’s open APIs and native extensions to Kafka, databases, and other enterprise systems enable real-time insights without custom middleware.
Working with HiveMQ, the leading MQTT Platform provider, we’ve been able to tailor a solution that will allow us to achieve our goals. We’re looking forward to optimizing our IoT deployment for cost-savings, and ultimately to reach our efficiency and sustainability goals while offering customers a superior and connected travel experience.
Head of Middleware
/Air France-KLM Group
HiveMQ Broker Typical Deployment
HiveMQ Broker, deployed at the plant, HQ, or in the cloud, serves as the central nervous system for industrial IoT—enabling event-driven architecture (EDA) through reliable, secure, and scalable publish/subscribe communication.
Key Technical Highlights
Dynamic Clustering: HiveMQ enables horizontal scaling by adding or removing broker nodes without downtime. This ensures high availability, load balancing, and resilience.
Standards-Based MQTT: HiveMQ fully supports MQTT 3.1.1 and 5.0, enabling advanced features like session expiry, topic aliases, and shared subscriptions for robust, flexible, and future-proof IoT messaging.
Enterprise-Grade Security: HiveMQ offers TLS encryption, mutual TLS, RBAC, pluggable authentication, and audit logging to ensure secure, compliant, and controlled data exchange across enterprise environments.
Key Technical Capabilities of HiveMQ Broker
Reliability
Seamless and reliable data communication is essential to building dependable MQTT-based processes, helping businesses optimize operational efficiency, minimize disruptions, and safeguard their reputation for sustained success. The HiveMQ MQTT broker delivers IoT data with enterprise-grade reliability for mission-critical applications.
Zero message loss
Persistent messaging by storing all messages to disk
Disk replication and offline message queuing
True quality of service (QoS) support
Reliable communication
Automatic throttling if needed, to prevent cluster overload
Dynamic queuing across clusters to ensure even load distribution
Messages are retained and stored on disk
No single point of failure
Masterless cluster architecture
Zero downtime upgrades with automatic spawning
Cluster can grow and shrink at runtime without losing availability
Scalability
Scalability ensures that MQTT brokers can handle the increasing number of device connections and messages without latency issues. By adopting the HiveMQ MQTT broker, businesses can scale to millions of connected devices and tens of thousands of messages per second, establishing a robust foundation for long-term growth and success.
Proven benchmarks
Benchmarked to 1.8B messages/hour
Real-world scalability with enterprise workloads
Elastic scaling
Architected with a truly distributed and masterless cluster architecture
Automatic data balancing across nodes and clusters
Smart message distribution across cluster nodes
Linear scalability
Scale from 2 to 100+ nodes with consistent hashing algorithm both vertically and horizontally
Automatic data and message balancing
Support for Kubernetes, OpenShift and DC/OS makes it possible to automatically scale HiveMQ
Enterprise Grade
The enterprise-ready HiveMQ MQTT broker is designed to handle large-scale deployments and high message volumes. Purpose-built for robust IoT applications, the HiveMQ broker can meet the needs of larger organizations that demand high reliability, security, and management capabilities for their MQTT-based communication infrastructure.
Enterprise-grade security
Data transport is secured by industry standard TLS connections, secure websockets and state-of-the-art cipher suites
Support for authentication and authorization includes X.509 certs, username/password, and IP-based authentication
Security API allows for custom authentication, authorization, and permission logic such as OAuth 2.0 integration
Enterprise interoperability
Comprehensive set of extensions support seamless data integration with streaming and analytics platforms
Custom SDK to build tailored extensions to any custom application in any environment
Any MQTT compliant client library can be used with HiveMQ to integrate to any device and OT system
Deployment flexibility
Choose HiveMQ Cloud, a fully-Managed MQTT Platform custom configured for your needs
HiveMQ self-managed can be deployed on a private, hybrid and public cloud
HiveMQ self-managed includes pre-built images that can be deployed on private clouds using Kubernetes, OpenShift and DC/OS
MQTT Compliance
The HiveMQ broker’s complete compliance to the MQTT specification helps maintain consistency, reliability, and compatibility across various devices and platforms that rely on MQTT for messaging and data exchange.
100% compliant with the MQTT 3.1, MQTT 3.1.1 and MQTT 5 specification
MQTT 3 and MQTT 5 clients can communicate simultaneously
Support for all advanced features like topic wildcards, persistent sessions with offline queuing, and retained messages
Full support for all Quality of Service levels at scale
100%
Compliant to specification
