<div class="wiki-content maincontent"><p>We are obviously biased, and will tell you "just use ActiveMQ!" <img class="emoticon emoticon-smile" src="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/s/en_GB/5997/6f42626d00e36f53fe51440403446ca61552e2a2.1/_/images/icons/emoticons/smile.png" data-emoticon-name="smile" alt="(smile)">  But Mantaray is an OK JMS provider. The interesting thing about MantaRay is it can support a peer-based network, just as ActiveMQ does with its <a shape="rect" href="peer-transport-reference.xml">peer transport</a>.</p>

<p>We <a shape="rect" href="performance.xml">benchmark</a> against Mantaray and other open source JMS providers and in our tests (in which we try to be as objective as possible) ActiveMQ exhibits higher performance in most scenarios.</p>

<p>A peer transport can be useful when using non-persistent messaging. But if you want persistent messaging you often want to use a federated network with certain brokers on the network being the persistence brokers (so you can backup the file systems etc).</p>

<p>The ideal topology often depends on your requirements and how you want to manage persistence and deal with hardware failures such as with <a shape="rect" href="masterslave.xml">MasterSlave</a>.</p></div>