HiveMQ Edge and MQTT

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If you are new to MQTT and want to learn about the specific protocol features and concepts, take a look at our popular MQTT Essentials series. In this series you can learn about:

HiveMQ Edge MQTT compliance

HiveMQ Edge is 100% MQTT compliant and implements all MQTT features.

Supported MQTT versions

The following MQTT versions are fully supported:

Supported MQTT-SN versions

The following MQTT-SN versions are supported:

MQTT-SN 1.2

Supported MQTT features

All MQTT features are 100% supported including:

Retained Messages
QoS 0
QoS 1
QoS 2
Clean & Persistent Sessions
Queued Messages
Last Will and Testament (LWT)
Dynamic Topics
Wildcard Subscriptions
Username / Password Fields
MQTT Client Takeovers
MQTT Ordered Topic guarantees for QoS 1 and 2
MQTT Client Load Balancing with Shared Subscriptions

Additional features

HiveMQ Edge adds many additional features on top of its MQTT core, including:

WebSockets

Third party MQTT libraries

All additional features are compatible with most MQTT client libraries.

Acknowledging QoS 1 messages

HiveMQ acknowledges an incoming QoS 1 message directly after the message arrived at the broker. Onward delivery to subscribing clients locally and in the cluster takes place immediately after message receipt as defined in the MQTT Specification.