Equalum vs TIBCO BusinessWorks comparison

Google and TIBCO are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Google is ranked #59, while TIBCO is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.3. Google holds a 0.2% mindshare in DI, compared to TIBCO’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

Equalum

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TIBCO BusinessWorks

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

TIBCO BusinessWorks and Equalum compete in the enterprise integration software category. Equalum seems to have the upper hand due to its ease of use and rapid deployment capabilities.

Features: TIBCO BusinessWorks is known for its robustness, flexibility, and scalability, with a vast array of connectors to legacy and cloud systems. It ensures performance and reliability with features like adapters and change data transformation. Equalum is noted for its simplicity and powerful integration capabilities, using technologies like Kafka and Spark, offering tasks through a no-code interface, and focusing on streaming ETL and CDC replication for efficient real-time data processing.

Room for Improvement: TIBCO BusinessWorks could address challenges with licensing costs and enhance its cloud capabilities. Developing a more mature cloud support system is necessary. Equalum can improve its user interface completeness and broaden its integration with specific databases and other vendors.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: TIBCO BusinessWorks is mainly deployed in on-premise environments, but hybrid cloud options are available. Customer service experiences vary, with some users finding inconsistencies. Equalum supports both on-premise and public cloud deployments, being versatile in infrastructure adaptation. Customer service is generally efficient but could benefit from faster response times.

Pricing and ROI: TIBCO BusinessWorks is often viewed as expensive, with a rigid pricing structure suitable mostly for larger enterprises. Equalum's component-based pricing may be costly compared to competitors but is justified given its efficiency in reducing development cycles. Both products are seen as valuable investments due to their performance and capabilities.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Equalum

Ranking in Data Integration

59th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Replication (19th), Cloud Data Integration (27th)

TIBCO BusinessWorks

Ranking in Data Integration

17th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Equalum is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO BusinessWorks is 1.1%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Joel Buck

Director of Enterprise Architecture at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

There is no better product for CDC and streaming on Kafka

The Equalum user interface is extremely easy to use. I would rank it really highly on user-friendliness. The only issue with the user interface is it doesn't supply everything that you need for somebody who has to work with Equalum. For example, when you get deep into development, there are many areas where you have to go to the command line to do things and the Equalum user interface does not have that functionality. The deployment of their flows needs improvement. It doesn't work with a typical Git branching and CI/CD deployment strategy. If you have multiple projects, all working in one Equalum environment, separating out their work is something that you have to design into your implementation, as opposed to baked into the product.

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Moustafa Fares

Senior Analyst at Etisalat

Connects systems securely, simplifies data communication, and benefits from AI integration potential

I would like to see an AI project with BusinessWorks. I haven't worked with cloud architecture using BusinessWorks, so I would like to work with it as a cloud architect. I am still learning the documentation, so I don't have a complete experience with TIBCO. The learning curve takes time compared to webMethods.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The main impact for Oracle LogMiner is the performance. Performance is drastically reduced if you use the solution’s Oracle Binary Log Parser. So, if we have 60 million records, initially it used to take a minute. Now, it takes a second to do synchronization from the source and target tables."

"Equalum provides a single platform for core architectural use cases, including CDC replication, streaming ETL, and batch ETL. That is important to our clients because there is no other single-focus product that covers these areas in that much detail, and with this many features on the platform. The fact that they are single-minded and focused on CDC and ETL makes this such a rich solution. Other solutions cover these things a little bit in their multi-function products, but they don't go as deep."

"Equalum has resulted in system performance improvements in our organization. Now, I am ingressing data off of multiple S3 sources, doing data processing, and formatting a schema. This would usually take me a couple of days, but now it takes me hours."

"I found two features in Equalum that I consider the most valuable. One is that Equalum is a no-code tool. You can do your activities on its graphical interface, which doesn't require complex knowledge of extracting, changing, or loading data. Another feature of Equalum that I like the most is that it monitors the data transfers and tells you if there's any issue so that you can quickly check and correct it. Equalum also tells you where the problem lies, for example, if it's a hardware or communication issue."

"All our architectural use cases are on a single platform, not multiple platforms. You don't have to dump into different modules because it is the same module everywhere."

"It's a really powerful platform in terms of the combination of technologies they've developed and integrated together, out-of-the-box. The combination of Kafka and Spark is, we believe, quite unique, combined with CDC capabilities. And then, of course, there are the performance aspects. As an overall package, it's a very powerful data integration, migration, and replication tool."

"It's got it all, from end-to-end. It's the glue. There are a lot of other products out there, good products, but there's always a little bit of something missing from the other products. Equalum did its research well and understood the requirements of large enterprise and governments in terms of one tool to rule them all, from a data migration integration perspective."

"Equalum is real-time. If you are moving from an overnight process to a real-time process, there is always a difference in what reports and analytics show compared to what our operational system shows. Some of our organizations, especially finance, don't want those differences to be shown. Therefore, going to a real-time environment makes the data in one place match the data in another place. Data accuracy is almost instantaneous with this tool."

"We are using only plugins for the database and SAP."

"It is very stable. It is a market leader, and it has connectors to many of the legacy systems. It also has enterprise cloud connectors."

"The ability to link to different technologies is valuable to us."

"The most valuable features are the stability and the time to market."

"The most valuable part of the solution is the ease-of-use and ease of deployment."

"The tool's most valuable feature is BusinessConnect. It's an older product but still quite useful, especially for transferring files from one location to another."

"It's a great software application for the middleware use cases to connect the front channels to the back ends in a secure and safer way."

"XML to JSON transformations, out-of-the-box, helps to build REST services."

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Cons

"If you need to use the basic features of Equalum, for example, you don't even need data integration, then many competitors in the market can give you basic features. For instance, if you need batch ETL, you can pick among solutions in the market that have been around longer than Equalum. What needs improvement in Equalum is replication, as it could be faster. Equalum also needs better integration with specific databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server."

"Right now, they have a good notification system, but it is in bulk. For example, if I have five projects running and I put a notification, the notification comes back to me for all five projects. I would like the notification to come back only for one project."

"They need to expand their capabilities in some of the targets, as well as source connectors, and native connectors for a number of large data sources and databases. That's a huge challenge for every company in this area, not just Equalum."

"Their UI could use some work. Also, they could make it just a little faster to get around their user interface. It could be a bit more intuitive with things like keyboard shortcuts."

"The deployment of their flows needs improvement. It doesn't work with a typical Git branching and CI/CD deployment strategy."

"I should be able to see only my project versus somebody else's garbage. That is something that would be good in future. Right now, the security is by tenants, but I would like to have it by project, e.g., this project has this source and flows in these streams, and I have access to this on this site."

"There is not enough proven integration with other vendors. That is what needs to be worked on. Equalum hasn't tested anything between vendors, which worries our clients. We need more proven vendor integration. It is an expensive product and it needs to support a multi-vendor approach."

"Could be more user friendly in the development area."

"Improve Business Studio's stability to further minimize development time."

"The creation of XSDs should be much simpler. They should ensure that what was working in the previous version must also work in the new version of BW six."

"The Business Studio tool can be improved, which is the tool for designing the processes. Improving the Business Studio tool will make this solution more stable. It has a steep learning curve, and it is pretty tough to learn."

"Challenges with TIBCO BusinessWorks were mainly due to unclear documentation, but these were overcome by referring to comprehensive documents and raising tickets with TIBCO support."

"There are multiple plugins which increase the number of product installations."

"There is room for improvement on the learning side."

"The container-based image is too large and this makes auto-scaling difficult."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Equalum is rather expensive compared to its competitors. So, you have to make up that cost in time savings, and we usually do that. If we are saving money, it is because we are reducing our development time."

"Equalum was reasonably priced. It is not like those million dollar tools, such as Informatica."

"They have a very simple approach to licensing. They don't get tied up with different types of connectivity to different databases. If you need more connectors or if you need more CPU, you just add on. It's component-based pricing."

"As soon as you have more than six users, Equalum is lower in cost [than Talend] and if the group gets bigger, it's quite a big delta. If more users want to use it, you don't end up with an increase in licensing costs, so that makes it very easy. And if you need more licenses or more sources, it's a very simple upgrade methodology."

"Equalum licensing costs vary, but I won't be able to give information on its fees."

"Its price policy has changed quite a lot in the last two years. It was extremely expensive previously. Nowadays, you can buy a license for BusinessWorks for €2000. Looking at what you get in return in terms of support, TIBCO community, and stability, it is fairly reasonable. It is not too expensive."

"The payments made for service are the only addition to the standard licensing fees that we pay for the solution."

"The license is expensive, and I would rate it one out of ten."

"TIBCO BusinessWorks is expensive."

"I give the cost of the solution a four out of ten."

"TIBCO licensing is yearly and very costly for a company like ours."

"My understanding is that the licensing is very costly."

"I think BusinessWorks is more expensive compared to other products. We have the ELA, so at least we have some sort of bargain or discount with that. But for a start-up, it's very expensive compared to other ESBs."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

12%

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

24%

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Questions from the Community

Why should I use Equalum instead of LogMiner?

You'd want to use the Equalium Oracle Binary Log Parser because it's just better than the LogMiner. Sure, LogMiner is made by Oracle and probably the team knows some insight to make it efficient th...

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Is Equalum compatible with all databases?

I'm using Equalum's data replication software for Oracle because that's the one database it's designed for. While it may sound limiting, when you find out how many solutions it can provide for you ...

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Can I use Equalum for free?

No, it's not free but you can benefit from a free trial, though. There's an option to try their platform for a limited amount of time, so that may be useful to help you decide if you want to contin...

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How does TIBCO BusinessWorks compare with Mule Anypoint Platform?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether TIBCO BusinessWorks or Mule Anypoint platform integration and connectivity software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Mule...

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What do you like most about TIBCO BusinessWorks?

The ability to link to different technologies is valuable to us.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO BusinessWorks?

Pricing is for an enterprise application, so the company pays for it with a company license. Everything comes packaged with the license.

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Overview

Equalum is a fully-managed, end-to-end data integration and real-time data streaming platform, powered by industry-leading change data capture (CDC) tech and modern data transformation capabilities (streaming ETL and ELT). Equalum's enterprise-grade platform features intuitive UI allowing you to build robust, real-time data pipelines in minutes.

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TIBCO BusinessWorks allows to connect applications, whether on-premises or in the cloud, providing proven reliability and scalability, out-of-the-box. With a drag-and-drop graphical development environment, TIBCO BusinessWorks eliminates the pain and cost of point-to-point application integration, connecting and unifying business processes across applications, data sources, and APIs, with access to real-time data across all your platforms.

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