问题
As per Wikipedia and Mqtt.org,
MQTT is a machine-to-machine (M2M)/"Internet of Things" connectivity protocol. It was designed as an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport.
In comparison with other TCP/IP or socket based protocols, what makes MQTT "extremely light-weighted"?
回答1:
The protocol overhead of MQTT is extremely small, the smallest packet has only 2 bytes overhead. The payload-to-overhead ratio is typically extremely good. It's also a binary protocol which reduces the overhead on the wire a lot.
An older but good blog post about the lightweightness can be found here: http://stephendnicholas.com/archives/1217
If you are interested in protocol details, check out this extensive blog post series: http://www.hivemq.com/mqtt-essentials-wrap-up/
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31502569/why-mqtt-is-called-as-light-weight-messaging-protocol