ZMQ Socket Patterns

Client/Server pattern (bidirectinal, thread-safe)

• ZMQ_CLIENT
• ZMQ_SERVER

Radio/Dish pattern (unidirectional, thread-safe)

A Dish joins a group in order to recive a messafe.

A Radio specifies the group of the messafe in the messafe itself.

• ZMQ_DISH
• ZMQ_RADIO

Publisher/Subscriber pattern (unidirectional, NOT thread-safe)

j A Subscriber subscribes to messafes starting with a given prefix.

A Publisher publishes data to its subscribers, according to their subscription.

• ZMQ_SUB
• ZMQ_XSUB
• ZMQ_PUB
• ZMQ_XPUB

Pipeline patterns (unidirectional, NOT thread-safe)

• ZMQ_PULL
• ZMQ_PUSH

Scatter/Gather pattern (unidirectional, thread-safe)

• ZMQ_SCATTER
• ZMQ_GATHER

Exclusive pair pattern (bidirectional, NOT thread-safe)

• ZMQ_PAIR

P2P pattern (bidirectional, thread-safe)

Connect one peer to many peers.

• ZMQ_PEER
• ZMQ_CHANNEL

Native pattern (bidirectional, NOT thread-safe)

• ZMQ_STREAM

Request/Reply pattern (bidirectional, NOT thread-safe)

• ZMQ_REQ
• ZMQ_REP
• ZMQ_DEALER
• ZMQ_ROUTER