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HiveMQ: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

HiveMQ is an MQTT-based platform for industrial and IoT data. It connects operational technology, IT, edge and cloud systems and is aimed at manufacturers and industrial operators. The product family includes the HiveMQ Broker, HiveMQ Edge, extensions and the wider HiveMQ Platform, which adds context and governance to industrial data. The broker can be run in different ways: as software you operate yourself, for example on Docker, and as HiveMQ Cloud, a managed MQTT broker service for which HiveMQ handles provisioning, scaling, security patches and high availability.

HiveMQ GmbH is headquartered in Landshut, Germany. HiveMQ Cloud Starter has been offered on AWS in Frankfurt and in Oregon, with the region chosen when a cluster is created. HiveMQ also publishes the Community Edition, a Java MQTT broker under the Apache License 2.0 that supports MQTT 3.x and 5, so a basic broker can be run on your own infrastructure.

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Sovereignty score

82 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
Open source: low switching costs
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-690
Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 9, 2026

Headquarters	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, USVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Data Integration & ETL
Type	Product
Website	hivemq.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to HiveMQ

The European alternatives to HiveMQ come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with HiveMQ

HiveMQ is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

HiveMQ hosts data in EU, US. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

HiveMQ is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs HiveMQ together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to HiveMQ?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to HiveMQ include Adverity, Axual and CloverDX. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to HiveMQ?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to HiveMQ include dlt (dltHub) and KNIME. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is HiveMQ GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

HiveMQ is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU, US. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes HiveMQ an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 9, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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