RIP11- Evolution of The Next Decade Architecture for RocketMQ

Status

Current State: Proposed
Authors: Heng Du
Shepherds: vongosling, dongeforever, duhengforever
Mailing List Discussion: users@rocketmq.apache.org;dev@rocketmq.apache.org
Pull Request:
Released:

Background & Motivation

What do we need to do

With the emergence of IoT, AI, Blockchain and other scenarios around the world, traditional messaging middleware faces huge challenges, so in order to better serve in the next decade and make Apache RocketMQ as the data infrastructure in the cloud computing era. We should think about the architecture evolution for RocketMQ. After countless investigations, We think that Apache RocketMQ should aim to become a unified messaging engine, lightweight data processing platform. Besides, Apache RocketMQ should have the IOT native ability. and Financial level stability.

Goals

A unified messaging engine, lightweight data processing platform

  Separation of storage computing and pluggable architecture.
  Improve computing power and response speed without concerned about the machine cost, operation, and - - maintenance cost brought by storage. 
  Powerful storage and indexing capabilities, support for multiple forms of queries and lightweight computing.
  Lightweight streaming processing ability.
  Support for OpenMessaging standard.

IOT native and Finacial level stability

  Integrating TCP-based MQTT, UDP-based CoAP or other IOT protocol.

New hardware acceleration

  In the modern era, the emergence of much new hardware has brought a lot of different thinking and design patterns to the development of software, and this is what we are pursuing.

Non-Goals

More usage scenarios cover

In the next decade, we want to make Apache RocketMQ be a data infrastructure, so RocketMQ should cover more usage scenarios to meet different types of needs. But this is obviously a huge challenge

Changes

Great requirements for abstract capabilities brought about by the new architecture.
This is a huge project, so the cooperation with the community will bring even greater challenges.
Forward compatible ability
Stability testing and improvement