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IBM MQ vs TIBCO FTL 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

IBM MQ
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
174
Ranking in other categories
Business Activity Monitoring (1st), Message Queue (MQ) Software (1st)
TIBCO FTL
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
7th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category, the mindshare of IBM MQ is 16.5%, down from 28.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO FTL is 6.0%, down from 7.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM MQ16.5%
TIBCO FTL6.0%
Other77.5%
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
 

Featured Reviews

MK
SWIFT manager at Raiffeisen Bank Aval
Reliable payment processing is achieved with minimal disruption
Currently, we have some disadvantages; it's a bit difficult to use IBM ID to access support from the IBM site. To get nice support from IBM, we need to use IBM ID, and it's a bit complicated to integrate it with IBM support. Support can be better because sometimes we need explanations for some behaviors of the product, and it's not easy to reach the proper person in IBM support. They could add some new features into IBM MQ to make it better. A graphical user interface in addition to MQ Explorer could be useful, but we are satisfied with MQ Explorer as well.
reviewer963342 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Architect
Static and dynamic TCP have been the most useful
It's an ESB for both server-side as well as with eFTL, we are exposing messages to clients over web/mobile From the current direct socket architecture, we moved to an FTL based messaging layer which allowed us to not worry about individual functions but work on a single message/framework.…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We like IBM MQ for our synchronous communications and transactional applications that require a lot of CPS."
"I think the whole product is useful, their database and all is very good, and the product is fine, and the fact that it ensures message delivery is probably the most important thing."
"The product helps us monitor messages with other queues, view duplicated messages and control undelivered messages."
"It is quite stable."
"It makes it very easy to update and define queues, look at messages, queue depth, and queue properties."
"If you're looking for a traditional queuing system, IBM MQ is the right choice because of the stability and the performance."
"We haven’t had any stability problems at all; stability and availability have been outstanding with the MQ appliance, and when an appliance went down everything failed over so seamlessly that none of our clients even knew about it."
"A stable and reliable software that offers good integration between different systems."
"It's fast, we are pumping in nearly 5GB of data in a day, and it just works."
 

Cons

"We have used the technical support, but we are more concerned about the response time."
"We would like to see more capabilities with MQ over the internet."
"I'm not really aware of how they help in this."
"I haven’t given it a perfect rating because there's always room for improvement."
"Maybe processing could be faster, in terms of EPS."
"It would be great if the dashboard had additional features like a board design."
"There are unknown bugs that we run across where we don't know where they are from, and the next fix pack will fix it."
"One thing that I'd like to see is that queue-sharing should not depend on DB2."
"The UI is clunky for administration, eFTL at times is not fully stable and have observed a few crashes, and the content matcher could be improved for or conditions."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the tool's price a seven. The product is expensive."
"It would be a 10 out of 10 if it wasn't so expensive."
"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 fee for this solution is on the higher end of the scale."
"IBM MQ is an expensive solution compared to other solutions. However, if you pay less you will not receive the same experience or features."
"IBM MQ appliance has pricing options, but they are costly."
"The pricing needs improvement."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Marketing Services Firm
6%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise18
Large Enterprise147
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Also Known As

WebSphere MQ
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Sample Customers

Deutsche Bahn, Bon-Ton, WestJet, ARBURG, Northern Territory Government, Tata Steel Europe, Sharp Corporation
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