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You can read user reviews for the Top Message Queue (MQ) Software to help you decide which solution is best for you.
Users compare and give feedback on Message Queue (MQ) Software that they’ve used — based on product reviews, ratings, and comparisons.
#1 IBM MQ
IBM MQ is ranked as PeerSpot’s #1 Message Queue (MQ) Software. Our users give IBM MQ an average rating of 8 out of 10.
Luis L., Solutions Director at Thesys Technologies, says, “What I found most valuable in this software is its reliability because messages that are sent into the queues are consumed by the other end of the connectivity. It has helped us maintain integration between two different systems, so that has been part of one of the layers of our architecture that communicates, for example, a back-end platform and back-end core system with a front-end platform.”
A Head Of Operations at a financial services firm mentions, “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.”
A Lead Architect at a retailer comments, "The most valuable feature is that it's a very strong integration platform but it is quite a monolithic solution. It's got everything."
An IT Development Manager at a financial services firm explains, “The solution is very easy to work with. It is very stable, it also offers transaction management and support.
The solution offers very good integration with other services. It's one of the great advantages of the service.”
#2 Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka is ranked as PeerSpot’s #2 Message Queue (MQ) Software. Our users give Apache Kafka an average rating of 8 out of 10.
A freelancer at a tech services company states, “The most valuable features of this solution is the architectural style of messaging or event streaming. First is important to understand that anything can be represented as an event=message e.g new order, status change, confirmation, information from IoT or from monitoring system. Each message can be transport very quickly from the source (producer) into consumer(s). Messages can be changed in the fly - streaming messaging.”
A Solution Architect at a manufacturing company explains, “The processing power of Apache Kafka is good when you have requirements for high throughput and a large number of consumers.”
A Principal Technology Architect at a computer software company expresses, "With Kafka, events and streaming are persistent, and multiple subscribers can consume the data. This is an advantage of Kafka compared to simple queue-based solutions."
PeerSpot user Dusty P., Senior Technical Consultant at a tech services company, says, "The most valuable features are the stream API, consumer groups, and the way that the scaling takes place."
#3 PubSub+ Event Broker
PubSub+ Event Broker is ranked as PeerSpot’s #3 Message Queue (MQ) Software. Our users give PubSub+ Event Broker an average rating of 8 out of 10.
A Managing Director at a financial services firm mentions, "When it comes to granularity, you can literally do anything regarding how the filtering works." He also adds, “There is also the interoperability. We've built a lot of products into it and it's been quite easy to feed market data onto the systems and put entitlements and controls around that.”
Daniel N., Enterprise Automation Architect at CIBC, comments, "The most useful features has been the WAN optimization and probably the HybridEdge, which requires some third-party adapters or plugins. The idea that we can position Solace as a protocol-agnostic message transport fabric is key to our company having all manners of asynchronous messaging protocols from MQ, Kafka, JMS, etc. I really like the WAN optimization: Send once over a WAN, then distribute locally as many times as there are subscribers."
A Technology Lead at a pharma/biotech company states, "In my assessment of Solace against other products — as I was responsible for evaluating various products and bringing the right tool into companies in the past — I worked with multiple platforms like RabbitMQ, Confluent, Kafka, and various other tools in the market. But I found the event mesh capability to be a very interesting as well as fulfilling capability, towards what we want to achieve from a digital-integration-strategy point of view... It's distributed, yet it is intelligently connected. It can also span and I can plug and play any number of brokers into the event mesh, so it's a great deal. That's a differentiator."
PeerSpot user Sushil S., Lead Manager at a manufacturing company, says, “The most valuable thing for us is being able to publish a message, then have the ability to subscribe it on the fly. We want to democratize the usage of this going forward.”
#4 VMware RabbitMQ
VMware RabbitMQ is ranked as PeerSpot’s #4 Message Queue (MQ) Software. Our users give VMware RabbitMQ an average rating of 8 out of 10.
An Assistant Student at a retailer says, “The solution is simple to use. It's great for messaging and consumer publishing. Companies can scale the solution, so long as they have server room. The stability is good.”
PeerSpot reviewer Michael T., CTO, CIO, Chief Architect at a tech services company, expresses, “Some of the most valuable features are “publish and subscribe”, fanout queueing, and scalability. It does an awesome job at fanout, perfect for CQRS, messages are delivered to all subscribers with almost no additional latency.”
Namrata G., an Independent Technology Consultant, Financial Softwares at a tech services company, says, “RabbitMQ is configurable and quite flexible. The performance is fast and reliable. It is easy to use. The addition of more queues and more services can be managed very easily.”
#5 ActiveMQ
ActiveMQ is ranked as PeerSpot’s #5 Message Queue (MQ) Software. Our users give ActiveMQ an average rating of 8 out of 10.
PeerSpot user, Shoaib K., Technical Specialist at APIZone, comments, “ActiveMQ is very lightweight and quick.”
