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Amazon SNS vs TIBCO Rendezvous comparison

 

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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)
6th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
TIBCO Rendezvous
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Business Activity Monitoring (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category, the mindshare of Amazon SNS is 5.3%, down from 5.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Rendezvous is 7.4%, up from 7.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
TIBCO Rendezvous7.4%
Amazon SNS5.3%
Other87.3%
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
 

Featured Reviews

HarshalJethwa - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Operations Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Event-driven messaging has improved real-time notifications and incident response
In my experience, the best features Amazon SNS offers include the ability to create an event-driven architecture and services, as well as real-time notifications.When I mention real-time capabilities and integration with other AWS services, specific integrations or real-time features that stand out most to me are S3 bucket events including creating a bucket, creating an object, updating an object, modifying an object, and deleting an object. Additionally, with CloudWatch alarms, when I get an alarm on CloudWatch, it will notify me via email using Amazon SNS. The same applies to application events. Amazon SNS has impacted my organization positively because using it, we are able to create an event-driven architecture and send notifications for events or incidents. Amazon SNS has helped my team respond faster, improved reliability, and saved time. Specifically, because of it, we are able to identify events as soon as possible. It saves our time and we can also process them as soon as possible.
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

"We use this solution because the integration between the features is excellent."
"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."
"Overall, I am very happy with this service."
"We see ROI because we use the features that help us and make our product work better."
"Stability has been good for us. It is quite high."
"Since moving to SNS push notifications, we have had a lot better coverage."
"The best aspect of this solution is its simplicity. We just have to create topics and can have as many subscriptions as we want under any topic we create."
"It's a simple communication service that allows us to communicate with customers."
"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 about 600 days of time without any problems in the system and the infrastructure we have is very stable to support infrastructure."
"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."
 

Cons

"Messages should flow through a gateway without the need for a mediator."
"In terms of improvement, I would like to have better customer support for SNS. We can then manage it very easily."
"In future releases, I want to see if the platforms that SMS can reach. It would be a good way to improve it. More platforms to be able to use it."
"I expect Amazon SNS to provide some capabilities to allow the configuration process to be done in a single script."
"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."
"There could be more integration with other solutions."
"I believe Amazon SNS could be improved because when you integrate it, you also need SQS, so it is a two-service job."
"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. Previously, we used to use SNS for connecting microservices. SNS has around six types of subscribers. We can subscribe to Lambda, HTTP, HTTPS, SMS, email, and push notifications. We used to use HTTP endpoints and Lambda for connecting to microservice systems. Now we have something called EventBridge, which actually does that for you. For connecting to services, we should just use EventBridge rather than SQS, SNS. I hear a lot of complaints from people wherein they do not understand when to use EventBridge and when to use SQS, SNS. They can remove these features so that it doesn't confuse users about when to use SQS, SNS, or EventBridge."
"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."
"The point-to-point connection issue with the mailbox needs to improve."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"The solution has no up-front costs because you pay based on the number of messages you publish."
"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."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
16%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Retailer
8%
Financial Services Firm
48%
Computer Software Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise4
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon SNS?
I believe Amazon SNS could be improved because when you integrate it, you also need SQS, so it is a two-service job. It does not provide filtering or advanced routing, there is no ordering guarante...
What is your primary use case for Amazon SNS?
My main use case for Amazon SNS is that we use it for a messaging service with a publish-subscribe model to send messages to multiple subscribers.A specific example of how I use Amazon SNS for the ...
What advice do you have for others considering Amazon SNS?
The features I find valuable in Amazon SNS are messaging, real-time notifications, and the ability to create an event-driven architecture. I give this product a rating of 8 out of 10.
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

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Rendezvous
 

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Sample Customers

PlayOn! Sports, NASA, Change Healthcare, FCBarcelona
Agilent Technologies, Vodafone Hutchison Australia
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