MongooseIM is a mobile messaging platform with focus on performance and scalability.
Designed for enterprise, it is fault-tolerant, can utilise the resources of multiple clustered machines, and easily scales for more capacity by simply adding a box or VM.
MongooseIM can accept client sessions over vanilla XMPP, REST API and SSE, as well as Websockets, and BOSH (HTTP long-polling).
As a platform, MongooseIM includes several server-side (backend) and client-side (frontend) components. The project provides a test suite, metrics, a load testing platform, and a monitoring server.
MongooseIM is free and open source software.
Features include:
- XMPP Core: RFC 3920, RFC 6120:
- In RFC 6120 there are 3 different strategies defined in case of a session conflict (same full JID). They are described in 7.7.2.2. Conflict. MongooseIM always uses the 3rd option. It terminates the older session with a stream error.
- XMPP Instant Messaging and Presence: RFC 3921, RFC 6121.
- Client connections:
- over TCP (with TLS/STARTTLS available) as defined in RFC 6120.
- over WebSockets as defined in RFC 7395.
- over HTTP(S) long-polling (BOSH) as defined in XEP-0124 and XEP-0206.
- REST API.
- Server/backend connections:
- REST API.
- Configurable database backends:
- Transient:
- Mnesia.
- Redis.
- Transient:
- Persistent:
- RDBMS: MySQL, PostgreSQL, generic ODBC.
- NOSQL: Riak KV, Cassandra.
- Integration with third-party services.
- Amazon Simple Notification Service.
Website: github.com/esl/MongooseIM
Support: Documentation
Developer: Erlang Solutions
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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