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Overview

The following table lists MQTT both libraries and implementations, along with general information about each.

A more complete list of MQTT implementations can be found on GitHub.

Protocol support

There are several versions of the MQTT protocol currently standardized. Below is a list containing the more recent versions of the MQTT protocol, with the organization that standardized them.

• MQTT-SN v1.2, standardized by IBM.⁶⁹
• MQTT v3.1, standardized by Eurotech and IBM.⁷⁰
• MQTT v3.1.1, standardized by OASIS.⁷¹⁷²
• MQTT v5.0, standardized by OASIS.⁷³

The following table lists the versions of MQTT that each implementation supports, and also lists their support for SSL/TLS and TCP. The security provided by SSL/TLS may be desirable depending on the type traffic being sent between devices, as MQTT transmits messages in the clear.⁷⁴

Quality of service levels offered

Main article: Quality of service

From the MQTT page, quality of service (QoS) is described as,

Quality of service refers to traffic prioritization and resource reservation control mechanisms rather than the achieved service quality. Quality of service is the ability to provide different priority to different applications, users, or data flows, or to guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow.

A description of each QoS level is found below.⁸⁶

2. At most one delivery (fire and forget)
3. At least one delivery (acknowledged delivery)
4. Exactly one delivery (assured delivery)

The following table lists each implementation's support of the QoS levels.

Portability concerns

Portability concerns in this section refers to technical details that may be deciding factors in selecting an implementation to use. In general, this table should be used by those with more knowledge about the device they will be using.

General requirements

The following table shows various requirements that may be useful when deciding on which implementation to use for a device.

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