We performed a comparison between Apache Kafka and Red Hat AMQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Message Queue (MQ) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The most valuable feature is the documentation, which is good and clear."
"The most valuable features are the stream API, consumer groups, and the way that the scaling takes place."
"Apache Kafka has good integration capabilities and has plenty of adapters in its ecosystem if you want to build something. There are adapters for many platforms, such as Java, Azure, and Microsoft's ecosystem. Other solutions, such as Pulsar have fewer adapters available."
"The main advantage is increased reliability, particularly with regard to data and the speed with which messages are published to the other side."
"With Kafka, events and streaming are persistent, and multiple subscribers can consume the data. This is an advantage of Kafka compared to simple queue-based solutions."
"All the features of Apache Kafka are valuable, I cannot single out one feature."
"Kafka is an open-source tool that's easy to use in our country, and the command line interface is powerful."
"Its availability is brilliant."
"The solution is very lightweight, easy to configure, simple to manage, and robust since it launched."
"The most valuable feature for us is the operator-based automation that is provided by Streams for infrastructure as well as user and topic management. This saves a lot of time and effort on our part to provide infrastructure. For example, the deployment of infrastructure is reduced from approximately a week to a day."
"This product is well adopted on the OpenShift platform. For organizations like ours that use OpenShift for many of our products, this is a good feature."
"Pulsar gives more scalability to an even grouping, but Apache Kafka is used more if you want to send something in a time series-based. If this does not matter to you then Pulsar could be more customizable. Apache Kafka is nothing but a streaming system with local storage."
"The solution can improve by having automation for developers. We have done many manual calculations and it has been difficult but if it was automated it would be much better."
"Something that could be improved is having an interface to monitor the consuming rate."
"Prioritization of messages in Apache Kafka could improve."
"The support on Apache Kafka could be improved."
"One of the things I am mostly looking for is that once the message is picked up from Kafka, it should not be visible or able to be consumed by other applications, or something along those lines. That feature is not present, but it is not a limitation or anything of the sort; rather, it is a desirable feature. The next release should include a feature that prevents messages from being consumed by other applications once they are picked up by Kafka."
"would like to see real-time event-based consumption of messages rather than the traditional way through a loop. The traditional messaging system works by listing and looping with a small wait to check to see what the messages are. A push system is where you have something that is ready to receive a message and when the message comes in and hits the partition, it goes straight to the consumer versus the consumer having to pull. I believe this consumer approach is something they are working on and may come in an upcoming release. However, that is message consumption versus message listening."
"The repository isn't working very well. It's not user friendly."
"This product needs better visualization capabilities in general."
"There are some aspects of the monitoring that could be improved on. There is a tool that is somewhat connected to Kafka called Service Registry. This is a product by Red Hat that I would like to see integrated more tightly."
"There is improvement needed to keep the support libraries updated."
Apache Kafka is ranked 2nd in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 24 reviews while Red Hat AMQ is ranked 7th in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 3 reviews. Apache Kafka is rated 8.0, while Red Hat AMQ is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Apache Kafka writes "Good partition tolerance, message reliability, and API integration ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat AMQ writes "Flexible, cost-effective, good compatibility with the OpenShift platform, effective and timely support". Apache Kafka is most compared with IBM MQ, Amazon SQS, ActiveMQ, PubSub+ Event Broker and IBM Event Streams, whereas Red Hat AMQ is most compared with ActiveMQ, VMware RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, IBM Event Streams and Amazon SQS. See our Apache Kafka vs. Red Hat AMQ report.
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