[zeromq-dev] 0MQ Pubsub vs XMPP Pubsub

[Bhavin Turakhia]

0MQ Pubsub vs XMPP Pubsub

 

In XMPP Pubsub, the list of subscribers of a node is statically maintained
by the pubsub service. The actual users do not connect directly to the
pubsub service, but rather connect to the XMPP server responsible for their
domain. When a node in a pubsub service receives a post, it looks up the
list of subscribers the post is meant for, establishes connections to those
servers that host that user and send out the message JIT

 

In 0MQ type pubsub, each subscriber node is expected to connect to the nodes
it wishes to receive messages from proactively. 0MQ type pubsub lends itself
more to a MUC type use case than a pubsub type usecase

 

Lets take a collaborative application, where multiple people can work on a
document at the same time (like google docs or google wave)

 

Each document is a pubsub node in this model, with multiple users. A typical
user would have thousands of such documents that he/she is a part of.
However only a few of them would be active at any given point in time. If
this were to be implemented in 0MQ, the model would assume each document is
a topic, and all the users who are part of that document can connect to that
topic and subscribe to it. However, in this model, the users (subscribers)
would need to know which documents are currently receiving messages for it
does not make sense for each user to establish a connection with every topic
since most of the older ones would not receive any more messages.

 

The way in which this maybe achieved using 0MQ is to use 0MQ alongwith some
mechanism outside of 0mq that notifies a subscriber to initiate a connection
to a publisher because new messages have been published.

 

Thoughts?

Warm Regards
Bhavin Turakhia
Founder & CEO
Directi
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