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IBM Event Streams vs IBM MQ comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 27, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Event Streams
Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software
12th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM MQ
Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
174
Ranking in other categories
Business Activity Monitoring (1st), Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category, the mindshare of IBM Event Streams is 2.9%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM MQ is 21.4%, down from 24.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Message Queue (MQ) Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM MQ21.4%
IBM Event Streams2.9%
Other75.7%
Message Queue (MQ) Software
 

Featured Reviews

Ismail El-Dahshan - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at areebah
Efficiently calculates data flow and provides ease of integration
We seamlessly integrated IBM Event Streams with real data processes by establishing data consumers. The consumers act as end-users, initiating requests and receiving responses from the data provider. The system efficiently processes and calculates the data flow within the cluster using DLP functionality. It provides an easy integration, particularly in creating a platform and facilitating interactions between subscribers and service providers. I rate it an eight out of ten.
Srinivas Krishnamsetty - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, At Tiaa Senior Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Asynchronous messaging has streamlined workflow triggers and supports reliable session rollbacks
The best features IBM MQ offers are the topic and subscription, as well as the IBM MQ session and message rollbacks, especially for JMS integration. IBM MQ serves as the underlying foundation for our JMS messages. IBM MQ has positively impacted my organization by enabling asynchronous processing, which means we do not need to wait for any responses from our downstream systems.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I am happy with the product, other than pricing I don't have any other improvements that I can suggest."
"I'm an administrator, and what I like most is the interface, the security, and the storage."
"The system efficiently processes and calculates the data flow within the cluster using DLP functionality."
"The triggering scenarios and routing scenarios are all good, making it a very useful solution for financial institutions."
"The stability has been good."
"I have found the solution to be very robust. It has a strong reputation, easy to use, simple to configure in our enterprise software, and supports all the protocols that we use."
"It doesn't lose transactions, it's fast, and it runs on every platform."
"It's good for messaging, very reliable, and forward compatible, so it makes our life easy when it comes to upgrades."
"The most valuable feature of IBM MQ is that it is robust, with dependability and reliability as its most valuable features."
"If you have mission-critical applications that rely on an exchange of data, and the data is very valuable, then I would suggest using MQ."
"It is very robust and very scalable."
"RabbitMQ and Kafka require more steps for setup than IBM MQ, and installation of the IBM product is very simple."
"This initial setup is not complex at all. Deploying it was very easy."
 

Cons

"In the next release, I would like to see the GUI allow you to configure the security section."
"The product's interface needs improvement."
"The pricing needs to be improved."
"It would be helpful if they could help us explain why they, as in, the customers, should use the product and the overall benefits."
"Maybe the administration interface could be improved."
"I'm not sure that current version has event-driven mechanism requests that people go for. I would like the latest version to come with both type of event mechanisms: an email server and a POP server. If that is not there, then that would be a great addition."
"It's been expensive to keep going the way we're going, and the turnaround is a bit slow, slower than we want."
"I'd like to see improvements around that area, so we can take our z/OS systems into our distributed environments even easier."
"The response time for IBM MQ support could be better because when we are using IBM MQ and something goes wrong, support is required as the resource availability of the IBM product is very limited."
"IBM MQ has limitations regarding scaling options. The licensing costs associated with scaling up and down were significant, which is why we are moving to Apache-based services such as Kafka."
"Price is one thing that could be improved."
"While there is support for API, it's not like the modern API capabilities."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing needs to be improved."
"The platform is averagely priced."
"Small-scale companies may not want to buy IBM MQ because of its high cost."
"This solution requires a license and we have purchased an enterprise license."
"99.999 percent availability for less than a penny per message over the past 25 years. IBM MQ is the cheapest software in the IBM software portfolio, and it is one of the best."
"I rate the product price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."
"The solution costs are high, it is going to cost a fair bit for annual operating costs and support."
"The price of IBM MQ could improve by being less expensive."
"We have a special contract with IBM MQ that give us a certain price."
"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."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
17%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise19
Large Enterprise147
 

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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, simple to configure and integrates well with our enterprise ecosystem and protocol...
 

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WebSphere MQ
 

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Sample Customers

American Airlines, UBank, Bitly, Eurobits, Active International, Bison, Contextor, Constance Hotels, Resorts & Golf, Creval, Deloitte, ExxonMobil, FaceMe, FacePhi, Fitzsoft, Fuga Technologies, Guardio, Honeywell, Japanese airline, Jenzabar, KONE
Deutsche Bahn, Bon-Ton, WestJet, ARBURG, Northern Territory Government, Tata Steel Europe, Sharp Corporation
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