IBM Event Streams Reviews

Vendor: IBM

4.2 out of 5

3 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is IBM Event Streams?

Built on open source Apache Kafka, IBM Event Streams is an event-streaming platform that helps you build smart applications that can react to events as they happen. IBM Event Streams is based on years of operational expertise IBM has gained from running Apache Kafka event streams for enterprises

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IBM Event Streams is the #9 ranked solution in top Message Queue Software. PeerSpot users give IBM Event Streams an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. IBM Event Streams is most commonly compared to IBM MQ: IBM Event Streams vs IBM MQ. IBM Event Streams is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 60% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 23% of all views.

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Ismail El-Dahshan

CEO at areebah

The triggering and the events that they have triggered as well as the route of the message according to the events are very useful. The triggering scenarios and routing scenarios are all good. It's a very useful solution for financial institutions. The initial setup is pretty straightforward. The stability has been good. I've found the product to be scalable. Technical support is responsive.

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Ismail El-Dahshan

CEO at areebah

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.

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Thabiso Mofokeng

IBM MQ Specialist / Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I don't know if it's because of experience, but for me, it was easy to install. It's just a matter of having an RPM, then click next, next, and next again. The difficult part comes in when you have to configure the security. That is the most difficult part, but it's not that difficult. It takes less than two hours to install. Two hours max, because I did one yesterday. I installed it on AWS and it was easy to install the software. It was less than an hour for the bare minimum installation. Setting up the security, took close to two hours.

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IBM Event Streams mindshare

As of July 2025, the mindshare of IBM Event Streams in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category stands at 1.0%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The system efficiently processes and calculates the data flow within the cluster using DLP functionality."
"The stability has been good."
"I'm an administrator, and what I like most is the interface, the security, and the storage."

Room for Improvement

"The product's interface needs improvement."
"It would be helpful if they could help us explain why they, as in, the customers, should use the product and the overall benefits."
"In the next release, I would like to see the GUI allow you to configure the security section."

Pricing

"The platform is averagely priced."
"The pricing needs to be improved."

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Financial Services Firm

23%

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14%

Retailer

11%

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IBM Event Streams 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