Oracle BAM vs PubSub+ Platform comparison

Oracle and Solace are both solutions in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category. Oracle is ranked #10, while Solace is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.5. Oracle holds a 5.3% mindshare in MOM, compared to Solace’s 12.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Solace users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Oracle BAM and PubSub+ Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle BAM

Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)

10th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Activity Monitoring (5th)

PubSub+ Platform

Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Message Queue (MQ) Software (8th), Event Monitoring (11th), Streaming Analytics (15th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category, the mindshare of Oracle BAM is 5.3%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PubSub+ Platform is 12.7%, down from 16.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
PubSub+ Platform	12.7%
Oracle BAM	5.3%
Other	82.0%

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it_user7818

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

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Deepankar Bbhowmick

Integration Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Messaging design has become visual and reliable and now supports fast microservice communication

The unique functions I appreciate about PubSub+ Platform are that it allows me to design my solution in a graphical manner, which is not available in many other products, and the design can also be pushed to the actual infrastructure layer, making it quite advantageous. Mesh technology is useful in scenarios where different geographies have to be connected, although such situations are not commonly found. It is beneficial but not a super-used feature of PubSub+ Platform. The event replay function is quite mature in PubSub+ Platform, allowing me to replay messages that are days in the past, which is a good feature. The main benefits PubSub+ Platform provides for the end-user include building a robust and scalable system with very low network latency, which improves the customer experience, whether using mobile phones or applications. This type of messaging framework is extremely important, and Solace is a very good product in that space. Nowadays, most applications are built using microservices technology, with small microservices interchanging messages via PubSub+ Platform. Without it, realizing a scalable system would not be possible; for example, one cannot have Netflix or similar services that require quick data transit and a good user experience, ensuring that data cannot be lost in transit. The analytics part of PubSub+ Platform is quite useful as it can connect with many analytical software tools, mainly for analysis of system logs, such as Splunk, DataDog, or Prometheus. It has the flexibility to connect with any of these and supports OpenTelemetry, which is not available in many other products, making traceability very easy. I can see how a message travels from a source system to the target system, end-to-end, along with what happens to that message along the path, making the analytics quite good.

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Pros

"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."

"This tool gave us the capacity to understand how our personnel is managing priorities and how these priorities affect our business."

"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."

"Capital markets couldn't operate today if Solace were down."

"We've built a lot of products into it and it's been quite easy to feed market data onto the systems and put entitlements and controls around that. That was a big win for us when we were consolidating our platforms down. Trying to have one event bus, one messaging bus, for the whole globe, and consolidate everything over time, has been key for us. We've been able to do that through one API, even if it's across the different languages."

"With all these new features in place it increases our productivity by something like 50 percent."

"If we talk about Solace, you see the value-add layer; I can say that Solace is a basic Kafka, but on top of that Kafka layer, they have added their own layer that is really good, as this is where it adds value and why we went for it."

"As of now, the most valuable aspects are the topic-based subscription and the fanout exchange that we are using."

"This solution reduces the latency to access changes in real-time and the effort required to onboard a new subscriber. It also reduces the maintenance of each of those interfaces because now the publisher and subscribers are decoupled. Event Broker handles all the communication and engagement. We can just push one update, then we don't have to know who is consuming it and what's happening to that publication downstream. It's all done by the broker, which is a huge benefit of using Event Broker."

"The way we can replicate information and send it to several subscribers is most valuable. It can be used for any kind of business where you've got multiple users who need information. Any company, such as LinkedIn, with a huge number of subscribers and any business, such as publishing, supermarket, airline, or shipping can use it."

"The most useful features has been the WAN optimization and probably the HybridEdge, which requires some third-party adapters or plugins. The idea that we can position Solace as a protocol-agnostic message transport fabric is key to our company having all manners of asynchronous messaging protocols from MQ, Kafka, JMS, etc. I really like the WAN optimization: Send once over a WAN, then distribute locally as many times as there are subscribers."

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Cons

"Sometimes creating a new measurement could be difficult."

"There were so many bugs and restrictions that were sold as "characteristics"."

"Bugs are in every product and this is no exception."

"The product should allow third-party agents to be installed. Currently, it is quite proprietary."

"A challenge we currently have is Solace's ability to integrate with single sign-on in our Active Directory and other single sign-on tools and platforms that any company would have."

"One of the areas of improvement would be if we could tell the story a bit better about what an event mesh does or why an event mesh is foundational to a large enterprise that has a wide diversity of applications that are homegrown and a small number off the shelf."

"If you create one event in the past, you cannot resend it."

"Potential areas for improvement in PubSub+ Platform are its authentication mechanisms, which could be slightly better."

"We have requested to be able to get into the payload to do dynamic topic hierarchy building."

"I would like them to design topic and queue schemas, mapping them to the enterprise data structure."

"It could be cheaper. It could also have easier usage. It is a brilliant product, but it is quite complex to use."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"There are different tiers where you can choose what would work for you. As a customer, you need to know roughly how many messages a month you will use."

"Having a free version is critical for our technology operations use case. This is primarily because our technology operations team is a cost center in our company. They are not profit drivers and having a free version for installation will probably meet our needs. Even for production, it'll support up to a 100,000 messages per second. I don't think in technology operations that we have that many events and alerts from our detection tools. Even if I have 20 or 30 event detection products out there, they're only going to publish the things which are critical or warnings. I don't think we'll ever reach a 100,000 messages per second."

"The pricing and licensing were very transparent and well-communicated by our account manager."

"The licensing is dependent on the volume that is flowing. If you go for their support services, it will cost some more money, but I think it is worth it, especially if you are just starting your journey."

"We are looking for something that will add value and fit for purpose. Freeware is good if you want to try something quickly without putting in much money. However, as far as our decision is concerned, I don't think it helps. At the end of the day, if we are convinced that a capability is required, we will ask for the funding. Then, when the funding is available, we will go for an enterprise solution only."

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"Having a free version of the solution was a big, important part of our decision to go with it. This was the big driver for us to evaluate Solace. We started using it as the free version. When we felt comfortable with the free version, that is when we bought the enterprise version."

"We have been really happy with the product licensing rates. It has been free for us, up to a 100,000 transactions per second, and all we have to do is pay for support. Making their product available and accessible to us has not been a problem at all."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

22%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Retailer

Healthcare Company

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	14

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PubSub+ Event Broker?

Pricing-wise for PubSub+ Platform, I find it a little expensive, so I would rate it at six.

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What needs improvement with PubSub+ Event Broker?

Potential areas for improvement in PubSub+ Platform are its authentication mechanisms, which could be slightly better. While simple authentication using basic methods is easy, moving to more robust...

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PubSub+ Platform is primarily used for guaranteed delivery of messages from across systems, for microservice-based development, and for high-speed data consumption purposes. Guaranteed transmission...

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Also Known As

BAM

PubSub+ Event Broker, PubSub+ Event Portal

Overview

Oracle BAM provides real-time monitoring and analysis capabilities to businesses, enhancing decision-making by instantly providing insights into process performance and workflow efficiency, making operational adjustments possible as events unfold.

Oracle BAM, known for its robust architecture, empowers enterprises by delivering a comprehensive overview of business activities, fostering rapid response to changes. It integrates seamlessly with existing systems, offering agility in monitoring and evaluating critical business operations. Its real-time dashboards and alerts facilitate immediate tracking of performance, helping businesses maintain a competitive edge by addressing inefficiencies promptly.

What features define Oracle BAM?

Real-Time Dashboards: Dynamic interfaces display live data for continuous monitoring.
Advanced Analytics: Offers detailed analysis tools to assess and optimize business processes.
Event Alerts: Automatic notifications alert users to significant business activities or issues.
Flexible Integration: Supports integration with various software environments.
Scalability: Adapts to growing business needs without sacrificing performance.

What benefits and ROI aspects should be evaluated?

Improved Operational Efficiency: Faster identification and resolution of issues reduce downtime.
Enhanced Decision-Making: Access to real-time data bolsters strategic planning and execution.
Cost Reduction: Streamlined processes cut unnecessary operational expenses.
Better Customer Service: Quickly addressing and responding to customer needs enhances satisfaction levels.

Oracle BAM is implemented across industries like finance and healthcare, where real-time insights enhance transaction processing and patient care. In retail, it offers businesses a way to keep track of inventory in real time, ensuring timely stock replenishment and enhancing customer satisfaction. Manufacturing utilizes Oracle BAM to monitor production lines, quickly addressing any hindrances to maintain smooth operations.

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PubSub+ Platform is designed for real-time message publishing and outstanding interoperability. With features like intuitive administration and topic filtering, it offers both stability and high performance for scalable deployments across diverse scenarios.

PubSub+ Platform enhances data integration with its event mesh and seamless protocol compatibility, providing a comprehensive solution for organizations tracking shipments, generating reports, and managing transactions. Its granular topic filtering and WAN optimization ensure high utility in event-driven applications and cloud deployments. Users highlight the platform's intuitive administration and ease of management, though some seek improved integration with third-party tools and enhanced observability. Concerns include scalability for large payloads and training resource availability. Despite its interface complexity, PubSub+ remains valuable for trading and market data distribution.

What are the key features of PubSub+ Platform?

Real-time messaging: Facilitates seamless communication across platforms.
Flexible topic hierarchy: Supports dynamic topic taxonomy for efficient data management.
Event mesh: Enhances integration and interoperability with diverse protocols.
Intuitive administration: Simplifies system management and configuration.
WAN optimization: Ensures efficient connectivity for global deployment.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Messaging stability: Offers consistent performance in dynamic environments.
Scalability: Provides seamless expansion to accommodate growing data volumes.
Security: Maintains robust protection for sensitive information.
Support and configuration: Accessible, reliable support, and UI-driven setup streamline the management.

PubSub+ Platform is widely implemented for asynchronous messaging in industries like finance for trading and market data, logistics for shipment tracking, and tech operations management. It enables companies to modernize applications while ensuring data accuracy and efficiency across global systems.

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Sample Customers

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.

FxPro, TP ICAP, Barclays, Airtel, American Express, Cobalt, Legal & General, LSE Group, Akuna Capital, Azure Information Technology, Brand.net, Canadian Securities Exchange, Core Transport Technologies, Crédit Agricole, Fluent Trade Technologies, Harris Corporation, Korea Exchange, Live E!, Mercuria Energy, Myspace, NYSE Technologies, Pico, RBC Capital Markets, Standard Chartered Bank, Unibet

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