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Azul Zulu vs Tealium Customer Data Hub comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Azul Zulu
Ranking in AI Customer Experience Personalization
21st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Application Infrastructure (11th), AI Content Creation (58th)
Tealium Customer Data Hub
Ranking in AI Customer Experience Personalization
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Tag Management (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the AI Customer Experience Personalization category, the mindshare of Azul Zulu is 2.0%, down from 30.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tealium Customer Data Hub is 0.1%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Customer Experience Personalization Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Tealium Customer Data Hub0.1%
Azul Zulu2.0%
Other97.9%
AI Customer Experience Personalization
 

Featured Reviews

BasilJiji - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Standardized our Java estate and have reduced licensing costs while maintaining strong support
Azul Zulu's ability to allow us to standardize our Java estate on a single and well-supported platform stands out as one of its best features. This standardization simplifies our compliance audits and ensures all our applications receive timely security updates.Azul Zulu positively impacts our organization by providing a platform that allows us to standardize Java on a well-supported platform. Without the high cost associated with other proprietary vendors, Azul Zulu provides an excellent platform for running our applications.
Mihai Milea - PeerSpot reviewer
Digital Strategy Manager - Tealium SME at Indegene
Used for tag management and its CDP capabilities
I really enjoy Tealium as a whole, including its tag management part and its CDP capability. I'll break it down into two parts. Tealium is the only tool available on the market for tag management designed properly for enterprise users. It already has a lot of ready-made integrations that you can customize according to your needs. Tealium's system combines tags with the concept of extensions. The way in which you can scope these extensions will allow you to greatly simplify your work when it comes to managing complex implementations. You could theoretically do the same things with Google tag manager. Generally, simple things are easier to do in Google Tag Manager. Very complicated things are done in a much easier, much smoother, and much more logical way Tealium compared to other tag management tools. Tealium is a complex tool. Although it's advertised as a no-code platform, that is really not the case. If you use your tag management system at a high enough level, you cannot rely just on the ready-made integrations and the out-of-the-box features. The same thing applies to Google Tag Manager. In many cases, you will also need to write code. However, Tealium allows you to deploy that code and control it throughout your implementation at a much more granular level, allowing you to do complicated things in a very streamlined fashion. For the Tealium CDP part, the tool has many ready-made integrations, and the concept of Webhooks allows you to integrate with pretty much anything else. The available consent manager integrations also make sending consent values across your entire tech stack much easier. It's part of the same platform and designed to be easily integrated with most consent management platforms. This consent integration feature is great for integration between your tag management and your CMP. You will still need to develop your own CMP or consent manager for extremely complicated scenarios. However, developing your own consent manager is much easier because Tealium has the consent manager API, which allows you to use a lot of ready-made functionality within your own code. The heavy lifting of that technical solution is handled through the API. For that sort of work, you need a developer. You won't be able to use someone who just analyzes data. You need someone technical who understands the JavaScript behind it to deliver this solution. It will be much quicker for a developer to deliver this solution using Tealium's APIs rather than coding everything from scratch and doing DevOps work to build the infrastructure. With Tealium, you can use your own infrastructure alongside Tealium's API. You need to write your own custom functionalities that you can integrate with Tealium's API capabilities.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We achieved specific outcomes from using Azul Zulu by reducing our Java licensing and support costs by approximately 70% when compared to our previous Oracle contract."
"We can create our segments and users in a field. Creating segments in Tealium using AudienceStream is easier than using any other filter."
"The tool helps us see the audience's journey."
"The vast amount of native connectors that Tealium has in its marketplace is valuable to us."
"Tealium's ease of use and multiple out-of-the-box integrations set it apart from other tools."
"It's a nice tool, and the data from Tealium is more appropriate compared to other tag management tools."
"The feature I like the most in Tealium Customer Data Hub is AudienceStream CDP. It's the main product with many features, allowing us to build complex and straightforward use cases directly. Tealium Customer Data Hub is an easy tool to use. The client and server sides are user-friendly, especially the server side, including Tealium CDP, EventStream, and AudienceStream. Marketers without technical knowledge can quickly build use cases in audiences and connect them to vendor channels. No technical knowledge is required for these users. The platform offers easy integration and implementation. While technical aspects exist for building more complex use cases, a marketer can directly develop and implement use cases quicklyin the platform."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The baseline creation of the tags is one of the tool's features that I like."
 

Cons

"Improvements for Azul Zulu could include more automated tools for unused code visibility integrated directly into the standard portal to help further optimize our cloud footprints."
"Tealium lags is in the tag templates."
"It would be good if the tool had a console inside it to help meet complex requirements."
"Sometimes, the extensions do not load properly before and after events."
"In the UI, some data is not visible. I think improvements related to bug fixing are needed in the tool."
"The solution’s user interface could be improved."
"In terms of the tool's real-time data capabilities, I think there are a few issues where improvements are required."
"The solution's documentation could be vastly improved to make life easier for people using it on a regular basis."
"You can do anything you need with Tealium and reach your goals. You may face difficulty finding talents using this solution as it is new to market."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Tealium Customer Data Hub is an expensive solution, but it is not more expensive than Adobe."
"It's not as expensive as other tools."
"Tealium's pricing can be expensive compared to others, but it's worth the investment due to its extensive features and capabilities."
"The price is based on event volume."
"In Tealium, there is something called events, and the pricing is dependent on the event. You will be charged only if you have active data flowing it in and out."
"The tool's price is somewhere in the middle, meaning it is not too expensive and not too cheap either. The pricing model comes with flexibility."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
30%
Retailer
18%
Computer Software Company
11%
Real Estate/Law Firm
7%
Energy/Utilities Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Azul Zulu?
Improvements for Azul Zulu could include more automated tools for unused code visibility integrated directly into the standard portal to help further optimize our cloud footprints. The other core J...
What is your primary use case for Azul Zulu?
Azul Zulu serves as our primary Java runtime, providing a stable, 100% open-source, and certified solution for our production microservices. We utilize it to ensure cross-platform compatibility acr...
What advice do you have for others considering Azul Zulu?
My advice for others looking into using Azul Zulu is to perform a pilot migration with one non-critical application first. You will likely find that it is truly a drop-in replacement, which will gi...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tealium Customer Data Hub?
In Tealium, there is something called events, and the pricing is dependent on the event. You will be charged only if you have active data flowing it in and out. We try to do the development that my...
What needs improvement with Tealium Customer Data Hub?
Everything in Tealium is pre-built, and it is customizable to play around with the data. The data that I get has little room to be enriched or modified. A little bit of coding would be helpful, esp...
What is your primary use case for Tealium Customer Data Hub?
My company is into CDP tools. Based on user behavior, my company chooses the next best action that needs to be done. All the data my company has, even before we had Adobe or some other different sy...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Microsoft, Kyocera, OKI, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, Voya Financial
L.L. Bean, Tripping.com, Charter Communications, Lincoln Financial Group, Citrix, Luxottica, Electronic Arts, HARMAN International, ALM Media, American Eagle, Ancestry.com, Brand New Day
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