We performed a comparison between IBM MQ and Software AG Apama based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, IBM, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Message Queue (MQ) Software."It is very robust and very scalable."
"The most valuable features are the point to point messaging and the MQ API."
"Clustering is one of its most valuable features."
"It is stable, reliable, and scalable."
"The reliability of the queuing is the most valuable feature."
"RabbitMQ and Kafka require more steps for setup than IBM MQ. Installation of the IBM product is very simple."
"The solution can scale well."
"I like the MQ's simplicity and rock-solid stability. I've never experienced a failure in two decades caused by the product itself. It has only failed due to human error."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability that it provides its users to handle different kinds of rules."
"I would like less updates from IBM MQ."
"They need to add the ability to send full messages (header + payload) from the MQ Explorer program, not just the payload."
"The GUI part could be better."
"If they could have some front-end monitoring tool that could be easily available for the team to use, that could be great."
"You should be able to increase the message size. It should be dynamic. Each queue has a limitation of 5,000."
"I don’t like legacy view of MQ."
"It could always be more stable and secure."
"I have used the support from IBM MQ. There is some room for improvement."
"The ease of development and maintenance should be enhanced, but it is difficult due to the use of the proprietary programming language in the product."
IBM MQ is ranked 2nd in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 158 reviews while Software AG Apama is ranked 1st in CEP with 1 review. IBM MQ is rated 8.4, while Software AG Apama is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of IBM MQ writes "Reliable and stable solution that includes support from the IBM technical team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Software AG Apama writes "A tool to send out promotional notifications that need to improve areas, like deployment and maintenance". IBM MQ is most compared with Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, VMware RabbitMQ, Red Hat AMQ and Amazon SQS, whereas Software AG Apama is most compared with Oracle BAM, TIBCO Streambase CEP and Apache Flink.
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