SDK overview - Simple Message Queue (formerly MNS) - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Simple Message Queue (SMQ, formerly MNS) provides both console SDKs and client SDKs for metadata operations and data stream messaging. Select an appropriate SDK based on your business requirements.

Description

Type

Description

Console SDK (metadata operation)

Console SDK allows you to create, delete, update, and view queue, topic, and subscription resources.

Client SDK (data stream messaging)

Client SDK allows you to perform management on different resources during actual data stream messaging.

For a queue: send, receive and delete messages.
For a topic: send messages, subscribe to a topic to receive messages on downstream clients, and consume messages.

SMQ provides features such as metadata operations and data stream messaging based on different core SDKs. The following figure shows the details.

SDKs

Type	Document
Console SDK	API catalog Download and use SDKs
Client SDK	API definitions and description Download and use SDKs