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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
3rd
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Business Activity Monitoring category, the mindshare of IBM MQ is 20.7%, down from 42.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Rendezvous is 10.5%, up from 9.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Activity Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM MQ20.7%
TIBCO Rendezvous10.5%
Other68.8%
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.
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 solution is very stable."
"I think the whole product is useful. Their database and all is very good, and the product is fine. The fact that it ensures message delivery is probably the most important thing. I also like that you're able to trace and track everything. If it doesn't arrive at the destination, it will go back to the queue, and no message will be lost."
"Definitely, you should use IBM MQ because it is a stable product and provides a wide interface with different systems."
"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."
"Reliable messaging and throughput are the most valuable."
"We had our MQ running in production for almost 800-900 days without any issues, i.e., for more than three years, we didn't even have to restart, and still everything runs so smoothly."
"It's an incredibly reliable, stable product for us."
"It is stable, reliable, and scalable."
"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

"The migration from different versions can be very different and difficult."
"I haven’t given it a perfect rating because there's always room for improvement."
"We need to have a better administration console and better monitoring features. Right now, they are not good and could be a lot better."
"IBM is expensive."
"For me, the management is lacking. It's doable, but it's not graphical."
"It's been expensive to keep going the way we're going, and the turnaround is a bit slow, slower than we want."
"One possible area with room for improvement is some integration with the alert system to alert us in case of any failure of any message to be transmitted from one source to another; maybe that could help."
"I couldn't find a lot of information on the system API side."
"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

"IBM's licensing model seems more reasonable than some competitors. They charge based on usage, which is good."
"It's super expensive, so ask them if they can consolidate some other licensing costs. But, IBM is IBM, so I guess we'll pay for it."
"In terms of cost, IBM MQ is slightly on the higher side."
"IBM MQ has a flexible license model based on the Processor Value Unit (PVU) and I recommend it."
"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 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 products, in general, have high licensing costs and support costs are too high."
"IBM MQ appliance has pricing options, but they are costly."
"There is a license needed to use this solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
23%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
Computer Software Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
50%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Computer Software Company
5%
Energy/Utilities 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...
 

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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