TL;DR: Solace Event Broker software gives you full control to run a production-grade event mesh anywhere—cloud, on-prem, or edge—while delivering the flexibility, portability, and consistency needed for hybrid environments.
Overview
Solace Event Broker: Software is a high-performance, self-managed messaging solution that can be deployed across public clouds, private infrastructure, and on-premises environments. It enables organizations to build and operate real-time systems with full control over how and where their infrastructure runs.
Because it is designed to run anywhere, the software form factor provides maximum flexibility for teams that need to meet specific operational, regulatory, or architectural requirements. It allows you to standardize on a single event broker across environments while maintaining consistency in performance, behavior, and capabilities.
Quick starts and VMs simplify deployment into a wide range of environments including:
- Hypervisors: VMware, KVM, Hyper-V, Docker
- Clouds: AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack
- PaaS: Kubernetes, PCF, PKS, OpenShift
There are two editions, Standard and Enterprise:
- Standard Edition: Free and feature-rich, Standard includes HA, support for all messaging patterns and features like replay. It handles up to 1,000 client connections, 800 GB spool, and 240 million queue messages. Dynamic message routing is available for 100 client connections, but throughput is capped and only one message VPN is supported. Some deployment types aren’t production-qualified.
- Enterprise Edition: Built for large-scale production environments, Enterprise adds disaster recovery, unthrottled performance, and higher capacity across the board. It supports 200,000 client connections, 3 billion queue messages, and a 6 TB spool. Also includes full DMR, five Message VPNs, and is always production-deployable.
Why Choose Self-Managed Software
The software deployment option is ideal for organizations that want full ownership of their infrastructure while still leveraging the capabilities of Solace Platform. It gives teams the ability to control deployment models, optimize environments for specific workloads, and align with internal standards and tooling.
At the same time, it provides the flexibility to run consistently across environments, enabling hybrid and multi-cloud architectures without introducing fragmentation or vendor lock-in.
- Run anywhere: Deploy across cloud, on-prem, containers, and VMs
- Full control: Manage infrastructure, scaling, and operations directly
- Consistent architecture: Same capabilities across every environment
- Flexible deployment models: Align with internal standards and tooling
Built for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud
Modern enterprises operate across a mix of environments, and Solace Event Broker software is designed to support that reality. It can be deployed in any environment and connected to other brokers to form an event mesh that spans cloud, data centers, and edge locations to put brokers close to the publishers and subscribers for maximum performance and resilience.
- Hybrid-ready: Connect cloud and on-prem systems
- Multi-environment deployment: Run wherever your workloads live
- Event mesh support: Link brokers into a unified real-time layer that architecturally appears as a single broker
- No lock-in: Maintain portability across platforms
What You Get
Solace Event Broker software supports a full range of messaging patterns and capabilities, enabling teams to build sophisticated real-time systems without stitching together multiple tools. It supports publish/subscribe, queuing, request/reply, and streaming patterns, along with features like replay and high availability.
It also integrates with Solace Platform capabilities such as event design, governance, and observability, enabling a consistent lifecycle from development through production.
- Multiple messaging patterns: Pub/sub, queuing, partitioning, streaming, request/reply
- High availability and Disaster Recovery: Built-in redundancy and resilience
- Replay and persistence: Support for durable messaging and recovery
- Open protocols: AMQP, MQTT, REST, WebSocket, and more
Operate Your Way
With the software form factor, your team controls how the system is deployed, configured, and operated. This makes it possible to integrate with existing infrastructure, automation pipelines, and operational processes.
While this approach requires more hands-on management than a fully managed service, it provides the flexibility needed for organizations with strict requirements or specialized environments.
- Infrastructure control: Deploy and manage on your terms
- Integration with tooling: Align with CI/CD and automation pipelines
- Custom optimization: Tune environments for specific workloads
- Deployment flexibility: Support for containers, VMs, and bare metal
Best For
Solace Event Broker software is best suited for organizations that need flexibility, control, and portability across environments. And for those looking for a lightweight standalone solution for edge environments.
- Hybrid architectures: Consistent deployment across environments
- Regulated industries: Full control over infrastructure and data
- Platform engineering teams: Standardize across environments
- Custom environments: Tailored deployments for specific needs
Proven in Production
Organizations across industries rely on Solace Event Broker software to power real-time data movement across distributed systems. It enables teams to connect applications, devices, and data streams across environments while maintaining performance, reliability, and control.