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Ably vs HashiCorp [Private Offer Only] comparison

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Ably
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
8th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
HashiCorp [Private Offer Only]
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
503rd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Uday Nagpure  - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at Zensar Technologies
Reduced manual work and built reliable real-time collaboration with serverless messaging
I love Ably for its advanced pub/sub messaging capabilities, which help us with messaging Delta Compression, allowing us to send only changes from previous messages instead of entire payloads every time. For example, if I have to say 'hi', instead of sending the whole payload, it only sends the change in the current payload, reducing bandwidth consumption and enabling high-frequency data streaming. This major change has made our clients really happy as they receive notifications and messages without latency. Additionally, if a client goes offline, Ably stores messages in history for up to 72 hours, allowing clients to query history and catch up on missed events, ensuring complete stream continuity. It also supports multi-protocol, using WebSockets and gracefully falling back to server-sent events and long polling as needed, including support for MQTT and IoT devices along with pub/sub control for easy migration.I appreciate the serverless integration that has the integrated native web hook, instantly triggering serverless functions such as AWS Lambda and Azure Function when specific real-time events occur. It also allows Kafka Connector for seamless ingestion of messages from Kafka topics to stream them out to millions of users in milliseconds.
AnkurSharma3 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Manager at TOWER RESEARCH CAPITAL LLC
Centralized secrets have secured certificate lifecycles and simplify dynamic credential access
I am not still working with Check Point tools. I am not working with anything like HashiCorp security lifecycle management or infrastructure lifecycle management. I am using Teleport instead of HashiCorp Boundary. I think it is pretty fine regarding the effectiveness of HashiCorp [Private Offer Only] Consul in managing service networking. I am not using Nomad for workload orchestration. I think HashiCorp [Private Offer Only] is expensive. Because HashiCorp [Private Offer Only] fits my use cases, that is why I am using it. My past experience with Terraform was helpful to manage a multi-cloud environment with it. Sometimes when I need to spin up multiple instances per requirement, I have the template, and I can use this to deploy the infrastructure very quickly. I would rate this review an eight on a zero to ten scale.

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Pros

"Ably has a big capacity to stream data all over the world, has higher reliability and a 99.99% uptime, offers robust security guarantees and ease of integration, and saved at least 80% of the cost that would have required more developers and more time for integration testing and development."
"My most-liked feature is its highly reliable real-time messaging capacity."
"We experience vast improvements across many areas with Ably; when users connect bank accounts, we previously had to poll repeatedly, which is now replaced by Ably's real-time infrastructure that maintains a persistent back-end connection, significantly reducing the need for infrastructure management and API load, resulting in average bank connection display times decreasing from eight to twelve seconds down to one to two seconds, and with persistent back-end connections reducing API calls, we achieve a lower operational load, seeing an impressive reduction of thirty thousand to forty thousand calls monthly."
"Ably has improved our organization by enhancing real-time communication capabilities and providing reliable data delivery."
"Ably's API integration is intuitive; it definitely improved our efficiency, and we saw faster user interaction and around a 20% reduction in latency during peak times, which improved user experience as well."
"Ably has positively impacted our organization by providing a good return on investment by avoiding the labor cost of building and maintaining a custom WebSocket server."
"HashiCorp [Private Offer Only] has positively impacted my organization because TFE is a great product, making it very easy to onboard teams that do not have experience with the specific product but have Terraform experience, so there is no steep learning curve in terms of how to run your code."
"Because of using HashiCorp [Private Offer Only], I am able to comply with regulations."
 

Cons

"Overall, Ably appears strong for managed real-time operations, but could improve areas such as pricing predictability."
"Ably can be improved in several areas."
"It falls just short of a perfect ten only because full twenty-four-hour phone or live chat escalation is heavily gated behind their highest enterprise pricing tiers."
"The area of improvement with HashiCorp [Private Offer Only] is that the support could be a little faster, and that is one thing regarding the technical support."
"I believe there is room for improvement with HashiCorp [Private Offer Only], specifically with Vault."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
28%
Outsourcing Company
19%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Consumer Goods Company
6%
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Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise9
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Ably?
For the use I have made, I didn't see any limit or margin to implement to go higher.
What is your primary use case for Ably?
My main use case for Ably is integrating the Kafka queue with Ably and sending notifications to IoT devices like a smartwatch. After the topic was reached by the message, Ably can fetch it from thi...
What advice do you have for others considering Ably?
I would recommend trying Ably if you have a wider range of IoT device types to deliver notifications. I gave this review a rating of 9.
What needs improvement with HashiCorp [Private Offer Only]?
The area of improvement with HashiCorp [Private Offer Only] is that the support could be a little faster, and that is one thing regarding the technical support. Considering I am in the AI era, it w...
What is your primary use case for HashiCorp [Private Offer Only]?
I am using HashiCorp [Private Offer Only] as secret storage for secrets, certificate generation, and for the lifecycle of certificates and credential rotations. I have implemented HashiCorp [Privat...
What advice do you have for others considering HashiCorp [Private Offer Only]?
I am not still working with Check Point tools. I am not working with anything like HashiCorp security lifecycle management or infrastructure lifecycle management. I am using Teleport instead of Has...
 

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