Starlight for RabbitMQ FAQs

The Starlight for RabbitMQ is a an open-source product from DataStax.

Starlight for RabbitMQ combines the industry-standard AMQP 0.9.1 (RabbitMQ) API with the cloud-native and horizontally scalable Apache Pulsar™ streaming platform, providing a powerful way to modernize your RabbitMQ infrastructure, improve performance, and reduce costs.

Starlight for RabbitMQ is open source and is included in DataStax’s Luna Streaming Enterprise support for Pulsar.

Starlight for RabbitMQ is a proxy for RabbitMQ that is powered by Pulsar. It requires a compatible Pulsar release to operate. The following Pulsar releases are supported:

Starlight for RabbitMQ does not currently support the following features:

Starlight for RabbitMQ was designed to make the most benefit from Pulsar’s scalability. Because of this, canceling an AMQP consumer re-queues the messages that were received through it because it also closes the associated Pulsar consumers.

Yes, Starlight for RabbitMQ is open source using the Apache 2.0 license. You can find the source code on the GitHub repository datastax/starlight-for-rabbitmq.

Yes. You can run the Starlight for RabbitMQ on Luna Streaming or Pulsar running on any Kubernetes platform, including Minikube, K8d, Kind, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service, Amazon Kubernetes Service (AKS), and other commonly used platforms.

You can deploy Starlight for RabbitMQ as proxy extension using the DataStax Helm chart for Luna Streaming and Apache Pulsar.

You can access the Starlight for RabbitMQ repository here.

Follow the getting started instructions.