MQ
The MQ Light messaging API is based on AMQP 1.0. The API provides most of the messaging capability needed for the majority of publish/subscribe and point-to-point messaging flows.
The MQ Light API has the following messaging features:
- At-most-once message delivery
 - At-least-once message delivery
 - Topic string destination addressing
 - Message and destination durability
 - Shared destinations to allow multiple subscribers to share workload
 - Client takeover for easy resolution of hung clients
 - Configurable read ahead of messages
 - Configurable acknowledgment of messages
 
Some of the benefits of AMQP are as follows:
- An open standardized protocol
 - Compatibility with other open source AMQP 1.0 clients
 - Many open source client implementations available
 
IBMMQ
The IBM MQ Light API is based on the OASIS Standard AMQP Version 1.0 wire protocol.