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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'm an administrator, and what I like most is the interface, the security, and the storage."
"The triggering scenarios and routing scenarios are all good, making it a very useful solution for financial institutions."
"I am happy with the product, other than pricing I don't have any other improvements that I can suggest."
"The system efficiently processes and calculates the data flow within the cluster using DLP functionality."
"The stability has been good."
"The solution offers very good features, including listener channels, remote queues, and transmit queues."
"All the features are valuable."
"It's easy to install and it's bulletproof."
"The number one thing is it's pretty reliable with data integration."
"The solution is stable."
"In my opinion, the best features of the WebSphere Application Server make it the ultimate product."
"Ease of use and ease of setup; I'm an admin type, and I can set things up from the command line, and I can set things up through a GUI, and it's easy to work with."
"The best features of IBM MQ were stability and straightforward application functionality; it has vendor support, which was a significant advantage, and in case of any production issues, we definitely get vendor support, whereas with Kafka and others, we have to rely on open community and our research."
 

Cons

"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."
"The pricing needs to be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see the GUI allow you to configure the security section."
"The licensing fees should be more cost-effective so that we can better pitch the product to our clients. With the pricing as it is, they tend to move away from IBM products."
"The GUI part could be better."
"Better testing by the supplier is needed Ability to send to a group of queues without the need to use pubsub and without the need to write one's own programmes."
"There could be a better front-end GUI interface for us, where we can see things more easily."
"I would like to see message duplication included."
"There is room for improvement with the price."
"We would like to see more capabilities with MQ over the internet."
"Sometimes, not all messages are consumed in the queues. File transfers need improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The platform is averagely priced."
"The pricing needs to be improved."
"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's licensing model seems more reasonable than some competitors. They charge based on usage, which is good."
"The pricing seems good according to the functionality that the solution provides."
"The license for IBM MQ is commercial and not cheap. You get a multi-platform solution, which is important because it lets you connect systems on mainframes, personal solutions, Unix, Linux, etc."
"IBM is expensive."
"Small-scale companies may not want to buy IBM MQ because of its high cost."
"We have a special contract with IBM MQ that give us a certain price."
"I think the pricing is reasonable, especially with IIB as a part of it."
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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
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise19
Large Enterprise147
 

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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
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