No more typing reviews! Try our Samantha, our new voice AI agent.

Amazon SNS vs TIBCO Rendezvous comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon SNS
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
5th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
TIBCO Rendezvous
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Business Activity Monitoring (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category, the mindshare of Amazon SNS is 4.9%, down from 6.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Rendezvous is 7.8%, up from 6.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
TIBCO Rendezvous7.8%
Amazon SNS4.9%
Other87.3%
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
 

Featured Reviews

VK
Assistant Professor, Technical Trainer at DIEMS Chh.Sambhajinagar
Event-driven alerts have automated incident response and support real-time campus workflows
Amazon SNS helps with microservices decoupling and SaaS scalability in our projects. When Lambda triggers, a proper notification is provided to the faculty or student, which is generated automatically due to the Lambda function. Amazon SNS has many features, including message filtering, multi-protocol support, security and compliance, and global reach. Beyond Lambda triggers and microservices communication, Amazon SNS shines with all these features. It is not just a notification tool; it is a versatile backbone for an event-driven system. Amazon SNS has impacted our organization positively due to all the notifications. For example, when a student uploads a file to Amazon S3, Amazon SNS immediately publishes an event that triggers a Lambda function, which scans the file for security, processes metadata, or even sends a notification to faculty. This automation ensures real-time processing without manual intervention, and it is something emphasized in training sessions as a practical DevOps workflow.
reviewer2817747 - PeerSpot reviewer
Tibco Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Messaging has supported complex integrations while DevOps automation improves uptime
TIBCO Rendezvous is a great tool but has some advantages and disadvantages. It runs on TCP and has a specific port on each server. However, the messages are not guaranteed messages. Messages that float on TIBCO Rendezvous are not persistent, which means we can lose the message. That is the disadvantage of TIBCO Rendezvous. If there is a disadvantage with TIBCO Rendezvous, people prefer to use TIBCO EMS because businesses do not want to lose their messages. The best features in Rendezvous require that when we need to install the TIBCO environment, the dependency of Rendezvous itself is required after the Java installation. There is too much dependency of TIBCO Rendezvous for the TIBCO environment to run. On each server, we need TIBCO Rendezvous messaging to communicate with different servers, both within the servers and outside the server. TIBCO Rendezvous is a good messaging service, but there is a feature of losing messages. We cannot guarantee that a message will reach the client because there is no client send receipt and acknowledgment receipt protocol that works in TIBCO Rendezvous. With TIBCO EMS, we have client send and acknowledgment responses. TIBCO Rendezvous is very good to use within the TIBCO servers. If businesses need to use it, they always prefer to use TIBCO EMS outside the servers, as TIBCO EMS is the best. The response time of Rendezvous is good, but I have one disadvantage only for Rendezvous. We can lose the messages over TIBCO Rendezvous. That is not good for businesses. They are not ready to lose messages.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"A clear return on investment has been achieved after adopting Amazon SNS for automation and microservices communication."
"The initial setup of Amazon SNS was easy."
"We have found the key feature of this solution to be the simplicity of sending out notifications."
"The mobile push notifications are the most valuable. Previously, we used to use Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) for this functionality. It is a Google service for sending push notifications. Android did not have a good service for sending push notifications, but now, Amazon SNS integrates with FCM. Under the road, it is actually using FCM, but we can see all the metrics on our AW service itself, which makes it a lot easier instead of using a third-party service for this particular functionality."
"Messages easily flow from publisher or application to subscriber."
"The integration between the features is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon SNS is speed. It's really fast."
"Push notifications are the most valuable. I have mostly used push notifications for my system. Amazon SNS supports all devices for push notification services. It supports iOS, Android, and Windows notifications. It provides reliable push notification services. We have queues, and we can track which notifications have failed or had some issues. We can then figure out the issue. We can also debug the issue because of which our push notification didn't reach the end users."
"You should read the documentation really well; they have made some improvements over the years during the past 20 years, and it's a hundred times better than what it was back in 1996/1997."
"TIBCO Rendezvous has a strategy to communicate in the network between the DMO of the product. They provide strategy through secure communication. They use the UDP protocol, but It's not a resilient protocol. They put another protocol to create a type of guarantee. It has a high level of communication between the DMO. This is the best capability the solution has."
"Kubernetes is the platform where we deploy pods containing YAML files, and we deploy Python or Java JAR files and run them without requiring the operating system, allowing us to run applications flawlessly."
"TIBCO Rendezvous has about 600 days of time without any problems in the system and the infrastructure we have is very stable to support infrastructure."
 

Cons

"A major issue with AWS as a whole is that it has a lot of services that do the same thing, and people get confused about which one to use in which scenario."
"Messages should flow through a gateway without the need for a mediator."
"We would like the integration with third party applications to be improved within this solution."
"The tool needs to have direct integration with AvPro."
"I expect Amazon SNS to provide some capabilities to allow the configuration process to be done in a single script."
"There needs to be more documentation on the integration with different platforms."
"There could be more integration with other solutions."
"There needs to be more documentation on the integration with different platforms."
"TIBCO Rendezvous is currently restricted in a cloud environment and it would be more useful in a hybrid cloud setup. It does not work correctly in a cloud environment alone. This is something they can improve in the future."
"TIBCO Rendezvous is a good messaging service, but there is a feature of losing messages; we cannot guarantee that a message will reach the client because there is no client send receipt and acknowledgment receipt protocol that works in TIBCO Rendezvous."
"TIBCO Rendezvous is currently restricted in a cloud environment and it would be more useful in a hybrid cloud setup."
"The point-to-point connection issue with the mailbox needs to improve."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing of push notifications and everything is quite fair. If you are using FCM under the hood, it is completely free. When you are using push notification on SMS, it is just a nominal price that you need to pay. SMS services are a lot more costly. It is because we don't have proper providers in India. That's why it gets a lot more costly in terms of SMS. This is the reason why we don't use SMS services from SNS itself. We use other third-party services like SMS Horizon. We use a third-party service for email services. It is almost free. It is just around $1 a month. Configuring Lambda is also quite cheap. You only pay for the Lambda usage. You don't pay for SNS itself."
"One can use the tool for free."
"Their pricing is competitive. I would rate the cost four out of five."
"The pricing is very cheap."
"The solution has no up-front costs because you pay based on the number of messages you publish."
"It is the cheapest solution in the market. It is on a monthly basis. After a month, you are build based on your usage. There are no additional costs to the standard licensing fees."
"Amazon SNS is cheap and I would rate it a three out of ten. The pricing is usage-based."
"There is a license needed to use this solution."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) solutions are best for your needs.
894,738 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Financial Services Firm
53%
Computer Software Company
8%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
Manufacturing Company
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise4
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

Ask a question
Earn 20 points
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO Rendezvous?
TIBCO has quite high prices as compared to other messaging services. However, the business still relies on TIBCO.
What needs improvement with TIBCO Rendezvous?
TIBCO Rendezvous is a great tool but has some advantages and disadvantages. It runs on TCP and has a specific port on each server. However, the messages are not guaranteed messages. Messages that f...
What is your primary use case for TIBCO Rendezvous?
We are dealing with both TIBCO and Tomcat. Tomcat is the backend server which is used at the back end of TIBCO 5.x. TIBCO is a product-based company that creates products for businesses such as pha...
 

Also Known As

No data available
Rendezvous
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

PlayOn! Sports, NASA, Change Healthcare, FCBarcelona
Agilent Technologies, Vodafone Hutchison Australia
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon SNS vs. TIBCO Rendezvous and other solutions. Updated: April 2026.
894,738 professionals have used our research since 2012.