# NATS Concepts

- [Overview](/nats-concepts/overview.md)
- [Compare NATS](/nats-concepts/overview/compare-nats.md): NATS Comparison to Kafka, Rabbit, gRPC, and others
- [What is NATS](/nats-concepts/what-is-nats.md)
- [Walkthrough Setup](/nats-concepts/what-is-nats/walkthrough_setup.md)
- [Subject-Based Messaging](/nats-concepts/subjects.md)
- [Core NATS](/nats-concepts/core-nats.md)
- [Publish-Subscribe](/nats-concepts/core-nats/pubsub.md)
- [Pub/Sub Walkthrough](/nats-concepts/core-nats/pubsub/pubsub_walkthrough.md)
- [Request-Reply](/nats-concepts/core-nats/reqreply.md)
- [Request-Reply Walkthrough](/nats-concepts/core-nats/reqreply/reqreply_walkthrough.md)
- [Queue Groups](/nats-concepts/core-nats/queue.md)
- [Queueing Walkthrough](/nats-concepts/core-nats/queue/queues_walkthrough.md)
- [JetStream](/nats-concepts/jetstream.md)
- [Streams](/nats-concepts/jetstream/streams.md)
- [Source and Mirror Streams](/nats-concepts/jetstream/source_and_mirror.md)
- [Example](/nats-concepts/jetstream/source_and_mirror/source_and_mirror_example.md)
- [Consumers](/nats-concepts/jetstream/consumers.md)
- [Example](/nats-concepts/jetstream/consumers/example_configuration.md)
- [JetStream Walkthrough](/nats-concepts/jetstream/js_walkthrough.md)
- [Key/Value Store](/nats-concepts/jetstream/key-value-store.md)
- [Key/Value Store Walkthrough](/nats-concepts/jetstream/key-value-store/kv_walkthrough.md)
- [Object Store](/nats-concepts/jetstream/obj_store.md)
- [Object Store Walkthrough](/nats-concepts/jetstream/obj_store/obj_walkthrough.md)
- [Headers](/nats-concepts/jetstream/headers.md)
- [Subject Mapping and Partitioning](/nats-concepts/subject_mapping.md)
- [NATS Service Infrastructure](/nats-concepts/service_infrastructure.md)
- [NATS Adaptive Deployment Architectures](/nats-concepts/service_infrastructure/adaptive_edge_deployment.md)
- [Security](/nats-concepts/security.md)
- [Connectivity](/nats-concepts/connectivity.md)