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IBM MQ vs TIBCO Rendezvous 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)
TIBCO Rendezvous
Ranking in Business Activity Monitoring
3rd
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Business Activity Monitoring category, the mindshare of IBM MQ is 22.0%, down from 25.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Rendezvous is 9.9%, up from 9.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Activity Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM MQ22.0%
TIBCO Rendezvous9.9%
Other68.1%
Business Activity Monitoring
 

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.
reviewer2817747 - PeerSpot reviewer
Tibco Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Messaging has supported complex integrations while DevOps automation improves uptime
TIBCO Rendezvous is a great tool but has some advantages and disadvantages. It runs on TCP and has a specific port on each server. However, the messages are not guaranteed messages. Messages that float on TIBCO Rendezvous are not persistent, which means we can lose the message. That is the disadvantage of TIBCO Rendezvous. If there is a disadvantage with TIBCO Rendezvous, people prefer to use TIBCO EMS because businesses do not want to lose their messages. The best features in Rendezvous require that when we need to install the TIBCO environment, the dependency of Rendezvous itself is required after the Java installation. There is too much dependency of TIBCO Rendezvous for the TIBCO environment to run. On each server, we need TIBCO Rendezvous messaging to communicate with different servers, both within the servers and outside the server. TIBCO Rendezvous is a good messaging service, but there is a feature of losing messages. We cannot guarantee that a message will reach the client because there is no client send receipt and acknowledgment receipt protocol that works in TIBCO Rendezvous. With TIBCO EMS, we have client send and acknowledgment responses. TIBCO Rendezvous is very good to use within the TIBCO servers. If businesses need to use it, they always prefer to use TIBCO EMS outside the servers, as TIBCO EMS is the best. The response time of Rendezvous is good, but I have one disadvantage only for Rendezvous. We can lose the messages over TIBCO Rendezvous. That is not good for businesses. They are not ready to lose messages.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I'd advise new users to try it out as it is easy to integrate, scalable, and stable."
"The usability of the solution is very good."
"IBM MQ is very stable, which is important for our core banking application."
"It allows data transmission from multiple platforms in a fault-tolerant manner, that's the biggest feature."
"The clusterization which results in persistence is the most valuable feature."
"Go for MQ. It will solve your problems for interconnectivity and just whatever you need to do; scalability wherever you need to go."
"I appreciate the level of control we have over queue managers, queues, and the messaging itself. That provides good security. So, the control and scalability of messaging are important to me."
"IBM MQ deals mainly with the queuing mechanism. It passes the data and it publishes it. These two abilities are the most valuable features."
"You should read the documentation really well; they have made some improvements over the years during the past 20 years, and it's a hundred times better than what it was back in 1996/1997."
"TIBCO Rendezvous has about 600 days of time without any problems in the system and the infrastructure we have is very stable to support infrastructure."
"TIBCO Rendezvous has a strategy to communicate in the network between the DMO of the product. They provide strategy through secure communication. They use the UDP protocol, but It's not a resilient protocol. They put another protocol to create a type of guarantee. It has a high level of communication between the DMO. This is the best capability the solution has."
"Kubernetes is the platform where we deploy pods containing YAML files, and we deploy Python or Java JAR files and run them without requiring the operating system, allowing us to run applications flawlessly."
 

Cons

"I lose sleep at night, because of, if we have issues."
"I can't say pricing is good."
"The GUI part could be better."
"In terms of cost, IBM MQ is slightly on the higher side."
"The solution requires a lot of work to implement and maintain."
"We did experience some security issues with the older versions."
"IBM MQ can scale, but there are some challenges with it."
"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."
"TIBCO Rendezvous is a good messaging service, but there is a feature of losing messages; we cannot guarantee that a message will reach the client because there is no client send receipt and acknowledgment receipt protocol that works in TIBCO Rendezvous."
"TIBCO Rendezvous is currently restricted in a cloud environment and it would be more useful in a hybrid cloud setup. It does not work correctly in a cloud environment alone. This is something they can improve in the future."
"The point-to-point connection issue with the mailbox needs to improve."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the tool's price a seven. The product is expensive."
"Most of our customers are quite happy with the solution but they have an issue with the cost. They want to move to cheaper solutions."
"IBM is expensive."
"99.999 percent availability for less than a penny per message over the past 25 years. IBM MQ is the cheapest software in the IBM software portfolio, and it is one of the best."
"Pricing could be better, as with all IBM products. But their performance in production, along with security and scalability, will pay returns in the long run."
"It is a licensed product. As compared to an open-source solution, such as RabbitMQ, it is obviously costly. If you're using IBM Message Broker, which is a licensed product, IBM MQ is included in the same license. You don't have to pay separately for IBM MQ. The license cost of IBM MQ is lesser than IBM Message Broker."
"The price is high."
"I rate the product price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."
"There is a license needed to use this solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
47%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
Construction Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise19
Large Enterprise147
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What is MQ software?
Hi As someone with 45+ years of experience in the Transaction and Message Processing world, I have seen many "MQ" solutions that have come into the market place. From my perspective, while each pro...
What are the differences between Apache Kafka and IBM MQ?
Apache Kafka is open source and can be used for free. It has very good log management and has a way to store the data used for analytics. Apache Kafka is very good if you have a high number of user...
How does IBM MQ compare with VMware RabbitMQ?
IBM MQ has a great reputation behind it, and this solution is very robust with great stability. It is easy to use, simple to configure and integrates well with our enterprise ecosystem and protocol...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO Rendezvous?
TIBCO has quite high prices as compared to other messaging services. However, the business still relies on TIBCO.
What needs improvement with TIBCO Rendezvous?
TIBCO Rendezvous is a great tool but has some advantages and disadvantages. It runs on TCP and has a specific port on each server. However, the messages are not guaranteed messages. Messages that f...
What is your primary use case for TIBCO Rendezvous?
We are dealing with both TIBCO and Tomcat. Tomcat is the backend server which is used at the back end of TIBCO 5.x. TIBCO is a product-based company that creates products for businesses such as pha...
 

Also Known As

WebSphere MQ
Rendezvous
 

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Sample Customers

Deutsche Bahn, Bon-Ton, WestJet, ARBURG, Northern Territory Government, Tata Steel Europe, Sharp Corporation
Agilent Technologies, Vodafone Hutchison Australia
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