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IBM MQ vs Oracle BAM comparison

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Categories and Ranking

IBM MQ
Ranking in Business Activity Monitoring
1st
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
174
Ranking in other categories
Message Queue (MQ) Software (1st)
Oracle BAM
Ranking in Business Activity Monitoring
5th
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Business Activity Monitoring category, the mindshare of IBM MQ is 20.9%, down from 29.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle BAM is 8.7%, up from 4.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Activity Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM MQ20.9%
Oracle BAM8.7%
Other70.4%
Business Activity Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

David Pizinger - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Technical Leader at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Has faced unexpected VM restarts but continues to deliver messages reliably
I'm not sure if we've utilized IBM MQ's high availability. Our MQ VMs are set up in clusters, and I think our queue managers are set up in pairs. However, I don't know if we actually use any specific high availability features of IBM MQ that are out of the box. We have it architected with high availability because we use F5 load balancers, and everything about our architecture is highly available. I haven't personally used the management tools with IBM MQ, but we do have them, and our middleware folks leverage them. I can't really comment on them because I don't use them myself. I don't think the management tools help optimize message flows, and I'm not really aware of how they help in this. I'm not familiar with dynamic routing for IBM MQ.
it_user7818 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Architect at AVIO Consulting
Can be fed information from existing database tables, JMS feeds, PL/SQL, BPM and SOA projects.
Aside from the normal bug fixes that were in the previous release, Oracle BAM 12.2.1.(3) is a great improvement. Customers using Oracle BAM 12.1.3 should consider upgrading to 12.2.1.(3). The three primary reasons I would give a customer to encourage them to upgrade are: 1. End user dashboard responsiveness has been performance vastly improved. 2. It is easy to detect trends and have Oracle BAM automatically send notifications due to its integration with Oracle Stream Analytics. This means Non-technical people can create queries and alerts based on pre-built templates such as: * Top N Template - e.g., provide a rolling window of a specified number of items (e.g., order amounts) over a specified period of time * Trending Detection Template - e.g., detect when order processing time in a specified rolling window of time is trending down by x% then output the time and trending values * Duplicate Detection Template - e.g., If duplicate values are detected for a supplier and requester over a specified rolling window of time, the duplicated output is output * KPI Alert Template - e.g., send an alert if processing time over the last specified time period is not within the previous average +/- standard deviation * Missing Event Template - e.g., when an EDI file is submitted and the response is not received within a time specified, an alert can be fired * Moving Aggregation Template - e.g., the moving average of dropped calls over a rolling window of time exceeds a certain amount then send an alert. 3. It might seem like a small thing, but list views can now be used to export to a CSV file. Other improvements that I have already found useful include: * It is not always possible to build BAM queries declaratively. When this is the case, you can now create your own pre-defined SQL queries * The data objects can now be on a purge schedule automatically using Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Manager * Data objects can now be joined using Inner or Left Outer Joins * Some widgets now support zoom

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable features of IBM MQ are its guarantee of delivery, ability to handle high volume while maintaining high availability, and robust security measures such as SSL, TLS, and RBAC."
"The most valuable features are the point to point messaging and the MQ API."
"It also has a backup queue concept and topics, features that I have not seen anywhere else. I like these features very much."
"A stable and reliable software that offers good integration between different systems."
"The most valuable feature of IBM MQ is that it is robust, with dependability and reliability as its most valuable features."
"Overall the solution operates well and has good integration."
"Reliable integration between MQ servers is the most valuable feature."
"It allows us to observe the status of our applications in real time; basically, very quick."
"It provides automatic sending of alerts for the monitoring of the business, and it is a feature which works and is very valuable to the organization."
"This tool gave us the capacity to understand how our personnel is managing priorities and how these priorities affect our business."
"Oracle BAM's ability to be fed information from a variety of sources that include existing database tables, JMS feeds, PL/SQL, BPM and SOA projects, along with its synergy with other Oracle products, makes it an excellent fit for Oracle shops."
 

Cons

"It would be nice if we could use the cluster facilities because we are doing active/passive configuration use."
"The GUI part could be better."
"I would like to see it integrate with the newer ways of messaging, such as Kafka. They might say that you have IBM Integration Bus to do that stuff, but it would be great if MQ could, out-of-the-box, listen to public Kafka."
"It's super expensive, so ask them if they can consolidate some other licensing costs."
"But, the initial launch of the application seems to be pretty slow."
"Technical support is very disappointing."
"It's hard to put in a nutshell, but it's sort of developed as more of an on-premise solution. It hasn't moved much away from that."
"The initial setup is difficult. Creating your own cluster is difficult. Working with cluster repositories is difficult. Issue management with IBM MQ is difficult."
"There were so many bugs and restrictions that were sold as "characteristics"."
"Bugs are in every product and this is no exception."
"Sometimes creating a new measurement could be difficult."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is real money involved here. As compared to RabbitMQ, IBM MQ is on the higher side in terms of cost."
"The problem with this product is that it's a little bit expensive."
"This solution requires a license and we have purchased an enterprise license."
"Small-scale companies may not want to buy IBM MQ because of its high cost."
"IBM MQ is an expensive solution compared to other solutions. However, if you pay less you will not receive the same experience or features."
"The solution costs are high, it is going to cost a fair bit for annual operating costs and support."
"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."
"IBM MQ appliance has pricing options, but they are costly."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise19
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
glh Hotels, Silver Diner, Smiles S.A., Portuguese Official Agriculture and Fisheries, SIBS, PARI Medical Holding GmbH, ec4u expert consulting AG, Natura Cosmeticos S.A., Portobello S.A., Algar Telecom S.A., Trombini Embalagens S.A.
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