Why Load Balance is not possible in EMS Topics

Queues are by default non exclusive as a result load balancing is possible.

  • But as Topics support publish-subscribe model of transport of messages, there will be one to many communication.
  • It will send copy of messages to each online subscribers.
  • As it is sending messages to all the subscribers in parallel, there is no need of Load Balancing.
  • But now EMS 8.0 we can have load balanced kind of scenario in topic subscribers by shared subscription feature.
  • When multiple consumers share a subscription, only one consumer in the group receives each new message.

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