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IBM MQ vs TIBCO Rendezvous comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

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
2nd
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Business Activity Monitoring category, the mindshare of IBM MQ is 20.4%, down from 43.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Rendezvous is 11.3%, up from 8.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Activity Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM MQ20.4%
TIBCO Rendezvous11.3%
Other68.3%
Business Activity Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

MK
SWIFT manager at Raiffeisen Bank Aval
Reliable payment processing is achieved with minimal disruption
Currently, we have some disadvantages; it's a bit difficult to use IBM ID to access support from the IBM site. To get nice support from IBM, we need to use IBM ID, and it's a bit complicated to integrate it with IBM support. Support can be better because sometimes we need explanations for some behaviors of the product, and it's not easy to reach the proper person in IBM support. They could add some new features into IBM MQ to make it better. A graphical user interface in addition to MQ Explorer could be useful, but we are satisfied with MQ Explorer as well.
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

"The most valuable feature is that it's a very strong integration platform but it is quite a monolithic solution. It's got everything."
"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."
"We've been using MQ for so many years; it's been really, really working great for us."
"It runs everywhere, from the mainframe in the US to the PCs in the Gobi desert attached to an analog modem."
"Reliable integration between MQ servers is the most valuable feature."
"We have found the security and monitoring capabilities of the product most valuable."
"MQ is a really good tool to be able to send messages back and forth between multiple platforms."
"The product helps us monitor messages with other queues, view duplicated messages and control undelivered messages."
"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."
"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."
"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

"We would like to see more capabilities with MQ over the internet."
"If we have IBM MQ or one of the applications go down, our entire plant is down. Then sometimes, it's 2-3 hours or something before someone calls us back."
"Everything in the solution could be simplified a little. We have trouble with the configuration and cost which is mostly an internal issue, but nevertheless, the errors do come up when there are configuration changes across a specific version."
"Technical support is average. In terms of efficiency and response time, it's average, comparable to any other vendor."
"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."
"I'd like to see improvements around that area, so we can take our z/OS systems into our distributed environments even easier."
"IBM MQ could improve capacity, monitoring, and automatization."
"It's not always easy for applications to connect to IBM MQ, but I think it's fine in general."
"The point-to-point connection issue with the mailbox needs to improve."
"TIBCO Rendezvous is currently restricted in a cloud environment and it would be more useful in a hybrid cloud setup."
"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."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I think it's pretty reasonable, but I'm not so too sure of the current pricing strategy from IBM. We use many bundled services, and most often, we go through a service provided by some other third-party implementation. So, I can't really give an honest opinion about that."
"The pricing seems good according to the functionality that the solution provides."
"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 pricing needs improvement."
"IBM MQ has a flexible license model based on the Processor Value Unit (PVU) and I recommend it."
"IBM MQ appliance has pricing options, but they are costly."
"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."
"Use the new and lightweight version (Liberty) to lower licensing costs. It is also easier to upgrade/maintain."
"There is a license needed to use this solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Marketing Services Firm
6%
Financial Services Firm
53%
Computer Software Company
8%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
Manufacturing Company
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise18
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...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

WebSphere MQ
Rendezvous
 

Overview

 

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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