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Aurea CX Messenger vs IBM MQ vs VMware Tanzu Data Solutions comparison

 

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Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category, the mindshare of Aurea CX Messenger is 1.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM MQ is 25.5%, up from 22.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Tanzu Data Solutions is 6.0%, down from 9.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Message Queue (MQ) Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
IBM MQ25.5%
VMware Tanzu Data Solutions6.0%
Aurea CX Messenger1.3%
Other67.2%
Message Queue (MQ) Software
 

Featured Reviews

Radhey Rajput - PeerSpot reviewer
Lightweight and efficient solution
It's very good and lightweight. But, it does not provide web service communication. But it is excellent for internal connections One valuable feature is the messaging broker. If there is a disruption, it restores the messages. And when the application is running, it delivers all the messages. The…
David Pizinger - PeerSpot reviewer
Has faced unexpected VM restarts but continues to deliver messages reliably
I'm not sure if we've utilized IBM MQ's high availability. Our MQ VMs are set up in clusters, and I think our queue managers are set up in pairs. However, I don't know if we actually use any specific high availability features of IBM MQ that are out of the box. We have it architected with high availability because we use F5 load balancers, and everything about our architecture is highly available. I haven't personally used the management tools with IBM MQ, but we do have them, and our middleware folks leverage them. I can't really comment on them because I don't use them myself. I don't think the management tools help optimize message flows, and I'm not really aware of how they help in this. I'm not familiar with dynamic routing for IBM MQ.
Sushma Polavarapu - PeerSpot reviewer
Create essential reporting scripts with simplicity but has some operational challenges
We mainly create functions and scripts required for reporting The product is not complex; I do not have to create stored procedures, functions, or views. It's just simple to use. There is general room for improvement. I have been using it for five years. I have faced stability issues, mainly…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"ESB: Provides all kind of possibilities to resolve business needs. A lot of ready to use services plus custom Java services. I used a lot of them all."
"SDM: User-friendly tool which allows for a seamless approach to performing hotfixes, if required."
"The Messenger Broker is a really good feature."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is very easy to develop. Most of it is graphical, but we also have the option to add any custom call that you need."
"The solution offers excellent stability."
"The solution is highly scalable, this is very important for us. It can handle a lot of messages."
"The feature I find most effective for ensuring message delivery without loss is the backup threshold. This feature allows for automatic retries of transactional messages within a specified threshold."
"Technical support is quite helpful."
"IBM MQ is robust compared to other products in the market. It also gives you support from the IBM team."
"I haven't seen any severe issues related to it. Most of the time it's running. That is the advantage of IBM MQ."
"IBM MQ is more reliable and secure than other software."
"On a scale of 1-10, I rate IBM MQ a nine."
"We use our routing feature when the request is coming from the business application. The request goes to the distributive side and it is routed to the right claim instance."
"Reliable integration between MQ servers is the most valuable feature."
"Tanzu Greenplum's most valuable features include the integration of modern data science approaches across an MPP platform."
"VMware Tanzu Data Solutions has positively impacted my organization because it is efficient, easy, fast, and aids in the creation and administration of web servers."
"It's super easy to deploy and it also supports different languages and analytics."
"Helps us to achieve large-scale analytics."
"Reliability for the messages is key. RabbitMQ ensures your messages are safe. They are not deleted and stuff."
"The product has been stable and I have never faced any kind of problems with it."
"Very sophisticated routing control and priority messaging capabilities"
"It's one of the fastest databases in the market. It's easy to use. From a maintenance perspective it's a good product. The segmentation, or architecture of the product is different than other databases such as Oracle. So even in 10 years, the data distribution for such segments will not affect other segments. The query performance of the product, for complex queries, is very good. It has good integration with Hadoop."
 

Cons

"Aurea CX Messenger could improve by making better use of the new APIs"
"I don't know if the last version has the cloud option, but maybe that could be good. That could be something that is included."
"The solution needs to improve support for new, more recent protocols on the API."
"It should include/add more services with the product as per market demand. It should include custom Java services developed by any organization or provide a platform where users/developers can share ideas/custom services, etc."
"You should not hurry with upgrades without testing the whole product completely."
"The improvement is that it should be on the cloud and use web services."
"The product does not allow users to access data from API or external networks since it can only be used in a closed network, making it an area where improvements are required."
"There are things within the actual product itself that can be improved, such as limitations on message length, size, etc. There is no standardized message length outside of IBM. Each of the implementations of the MQ series or support of that functionality varies between various suppliers, and because of that, it is very difficult to move from one to the other. We have IBM MQ, but we couldn't use it because the platform that was speaking to MQ didn't support the message length that was standard within IBM MQ. So, we had to use a different product to do exactly the same thing. So, perhaps, there could be more flexibility in the standards around the message queue. If we had been able to increase the message queue size within the IBM MQ implementation, we wouldn't have had to go over to another competing product because the system that was using MQ messaging required the ability to hold messages that were far larger than the IBM MQ standard. So, there could be a bit more flexibility in the structuring. It has as such nothing to do with the IBM implementation of MQ. It is just that the standard that is being put out onto the market doesn't actually stipulate those types of things."
"IBM MQ could streamline its complexity to be more like Kafka without the channel complexities of clusters, making it more straightforward."
"The issue is that they're using a very old clustering model."
"We have had scalability issues with some projects in the past."
"IBM MQ could improve capacity, monitoring, and automatization."
"It should support a wider range of protocols, not just a few specific ones. Many other products have broader protocol support, and IBM MQ is lagging in that area."
"The scalability is the one area where IBM has fallen behind. As much as it is used, there is a limit to the number of people who are skilled in MQ. That is definitely an issue. Places have kept their MQ-skilled people and other places have really struggled to get MQ skills. It's not a widely-known skillset."
"The support feature could benefit from some improvement in terms of accessibility and responsiveness."
"It will be very useful if we could communicate with other database types from Greenplum (using a database link)."
"Tanzu Greenplum's compression for GPText could be made more efficient."
"I would like to see the performance of the administration portal improved and additional messaging protocols."
"I’d like this dashboard to use web sockets, so it would actually be in real time. It would slightly increase debugging, etc."
"Implementing a circuit breaker scenario using RabbitMQ is complicated. This complexity arises because manual intervention is required to manage worker details and handle operations based on worker IP addresses."
"VMware Tanzu Data Solutions can be improved as it is better and faster for administration and clusters, Dockers, and Kubernetes. Improvements are needed in the documentation."
"The fact that a single queue can't be distributed across multiple instances/nodes is a major disadvantage."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is not so high."
"You pay nothing for licensing, because the commercial model is a subscription. Other environments, such as QA and Development, are included in the subscription"
"Much better than Oracle SOA Suite."
"I rate the product price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."
"It is a very expensive product compared to the open source products in the market."
"It is a licensed product. As compared to an open-source solution, such as RabbitMQ, it is obviously costly. If you're using IBM Message Broker, which is a licensed product, IBM MQ is included in the same license. You don't have to pay separately for IBM MQ. The license cost of IBM MQ is lesser than IBM Message Broker."
"I think IBM needs to look at its pricing. The prices of IBM products should be simple. The old way of pricing should now be moving on to the cloud to be pay as you go, a plan-based kind of pricing."
"Most of our customers are quite happy with the solution but they have an issue with the cost. They want to move to cheaper solutions."
"IBM's licensing model seems more reasonable than some competitors. They charge based on usage, which is good."
"Licensing for this software is on a yearly basis. The standard fee includes the maintenance and updates that are released periodically."
"IBM MQ is an expensive solution compared to other solutions. However, if you pay less you will not receive the same experience or features."
"It is an open-source platform. Although, we have to pay for additional features."
"The pricing is okay."
"It’s an open-source solution."
"It is an open-source product."
"Tanzu Greenplum's pricing is really competitive and gives excellent value for money."
"It is the best product with best fit for price/performance customer objectives."
"On a scale of one to five, with five being the most competitive pricing, I would rate this solution as a four."
"The solution's pricing is cost-effective as it does not involve significant expenses. Licensing is required only for the server, while clients do not need any licensing. Therefore, it proves to be a cost-efficient option."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Insurance Company
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Media Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
34%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Healthcare Company
4%
Financial Services Firm
23%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Retailer
5%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
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Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise18
Large Enterprise146
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business30
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise49
 

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What is MQ software?
Hi As someone with 45+ years of experience in the Transaction and Message Processing world, I have seen many "MQ" sol...
What are the differences between Apache Kafka and IBM MQ?
Apache Kafka is open source and can be used for free. It has very good log management and has a way to store the data...
How does IBM MQ compare with VMware RabbitMQ?
IBM MQ has a great reputation behind it, and this solution is very robust with great stability. It is easy to use, si...
What do you like most about VMware RabbitMQ?
RabbitMQ provides access to SDKs for development and the ability to raise and log tickets if we encounter issues. We ...
What needs improvement with VMware RabbitMQ?
Implementing a circuit breaker scenario using RabbitMQ is complicated. This complexity arises because manual interven...
 

Also Known As

CX Messenger Enterprise, Aurea Sonic ESB, Aurea Sonic, Aurea Sonic MQ
WebSphere MQ
Greenplum, Pivotal Greenplum, VMware RabbitMQ, VMware Tanzu GemFire, VMware Postgres
 

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