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IBM MQ vs Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS comparison

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Categories and Ranking

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)
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS
Ranking in Message Queue (MQ) Software
14th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category, the mindshare of IBM MQ is 21.4%, down from 24.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS is 2.5%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Message Queue (MQ) Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM MQ21.4%
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ for xPaaS2.5%
Other76.1%
Message Queue (MQ) Software
 

Featured Reviews

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.
AR
System Administrator at BH Bank
It's scalable and easy to use, and we have local support here in Tunisia
We have an application-presentation layer, and we use JBoss to communicate with the application layer. The interceptors use Active MQ.  JBoss is easy to use, and we have a good partner here in Tunisia to provide local support.  JBoss could add more automation. We have been using JBoss for five…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"This product is from IBM which is a very well-known company, and MQ is a reliable, easy to understand and install solution."
"The features of IBM MQ that have proven most effective for ensuring message delivery reliability are the stability of the system, the resilience and the product, which is definitely of top quality in this segment."
"It is stable, reliable, and scalable."
"The most valuable feature of IBM MQ is transaction processing."
"The MQ appliance has very good performance."
"It's easy to maintain, easy to administer, and easy to see what's going on there."
"It allows data transmission from multiple platforms in a fault-tolerant manner, that's the biggest feature."
"I would recommend IBM MQ to others that are using major transaction processing."
"JBoss is easy to use, and we have a good partner here in Tunisia to provide local support."
 

Cons

"The user interface might be an area with room for improvement, but we use MQ Explorer and that helps solve a lot of our problems there."
"Scaling out MQ is possible, but it's not as easy as some other products."
"Customer support response times could be improved."
"The migration from different versions can be very different and difficult."
"Better error handling, such as a default dead message queue for errors, would be beneficial."
"One of the bottlenecks for us is owing to the industry that we're in, we sometimes get the large payloads and the MQ queues that we can increase."
"I believe the stability of the product has decreased since we began using it initially."
"It's not always easy for applications to connect to IBM MQ, but I think it's fine in general."
"JBoss could add more automation."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I think the pricing is reasonable, especially with IIB as a part of it."
"IBM MQ has a flexible license model based on the Processor Value Unit (PVU) and I recommend it."
"The licensing fees are paid quarterly and they are expensive."
"The pricing needs improvement."
"It would be a 10 out of 10 if it wasn't so expensive."
"IBM MQ is expensive and they charge based on the CPU."
"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."
"There is a different platform price between Windows, z/OS, and iSeries."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise19
Large Enterprise147
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Also Known As

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Sample Customers

Deutsche Bahn, Bon-Ton, WestJet, ARBURG, Northern Territory Government, Tata Steel Europe, Sharp Corporation
E*TRADE, CERN, CenturyLink, AECOM, Sabre Holdings
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