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PubSub+ Platform vs TIBCO Enterprise Message Service comparison

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Categories and Ranking

PubSub+ Platform
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Message Queue (MQ) Software (10th), Event Monitoring (13th), Streaming Analytics (14th)
TIBCO Enterprise Message Se...
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
4th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Business Activity Monitoring (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category, the mindshare of PubSub+ Platform is 12.7%, down from 13.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Enterprise Message Service is 10.1%, up from 9.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PubSub+ Platform12.7%
TIBCO Enterprise Message Service10.1%
Other77.2%
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
 

Featured Reviews

Deepankar Bbhowmick - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
SunilKumar26 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Persistent messaging has improved reliability while message rate and licensing still need work
One problem is the license cost. If we take Kafka, it's an open source platform, Apache Kafka, but with TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, the license cost is significantly higher. The message rate in TIBCO Enterprise Message Service needs to be increased compared to Kafka. The streaming capacity of Kafka is much better than TIBCO Enterprise Message Service. This part should be improved. The message rate per bit, per minute, and per second is much lower in TIBCO Enterprise Message Service compared to Kafka. Setup is relatively simple and not overly complex, but we do need some root access and administrator privileges. However, the problem is that once we upgrade TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, whatever services are on the primary must be taken down.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"When it comes to granularity, you can literally do anything regarding how the filtering works."
"Guaranteed Messaging allows for us to transport messages between on-prem and the cloud without any loss of data."
"I rate the PubSub+ Platform a 9 out of 10."
"The event portal and the diversity of deployment options in a hybrid landscape are the most valuable features."
"As of now, the most valuable aspects are the topic-based subscription and the fanout exchange that we are using."
"One of the main reasons for using PubSub+ is that it is a proper event manager that can handle events in a reactive way."
"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 best features of PubSub+ Platform include being highly scalable, allowing us to handle billions and billions of events, and configuring and managing PubSub+ Platform is straightforward and simple while being highly reliable."
"It is very useful tool. It is also very easy to learn and implement.​"
"I like TIBCO's ability to create versioned queues and persistent messages."
"The Enterprise Messaging Server will store the message and wait for other subscribers to come onto the network."
"The setup was done by TIBCO. It has been stable and has a server."
"TIBCO Enterprise Message Service's most valuable features are rapid zero-code integration and its large number of adapters and plugins."
"It allows us to achieve synchronous as well as asynchronous communication with the added advantage of making the communication reliable."
"We have implanted the core middleware solution for the organization using this product and it is responsible for communication between different applications."
"It's a very secure and useful product wherein most of our clients are using this messaging product."
 

Cons

"We have requested to be able to get into the payload to do dynamic topic hierarchy building. A current workaround is using the message's header, where the business data can be put into this header and be used for a dynamic topic lookup. I want to see this in action when there are a couple of hundred cases live. E.g., how does it perform? From an administration perspective, is the ease of use there?"
"For improvements, I would suggest increasing the max payload size to a limit of 100MB or more. The current max payload size is limited to 5MB."
"The solution could be improved by enhancing the message pooling size for persistent messages to handle both small and large messages effectively."
"Some of the feature's gaps with some of the open-source vendors have been closed in a lot of ways. Being more agile and addressing those earlier could be an area for improvement."
"We have struggled in a sort of perpetual PoC mode internally."
"I would like them to design topic and queue schemas, mapping them to the enterprise data structure."
"If you create one event in the past, you cannot resend it."
"The deployment process is complex."
"Overall, my experience with the support team has been disappointing."
"​Since all the communications goes through this product, it acts as a single point of failure."
"One problem is the license cost. If we take Kafka, it's an open source platform, Apache Kafka, but with TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, the license cost is significantly higher."
"An area for improvement would be integration with the API layer."
"It can be improved in the sense that in the market we can see the cloud is coming, but this is not cloud compatible."
"TIBCO also has its proprietary line of cloud-based applications, but specifically, these two products are not cloud compatible."
"I would like to see better integration with Java and Apache Kafka."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It could be cheaper. Its licensing is on a yearly basis."
"I would rate the product's pricing a ten out of ten."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 pricing and licensing were very transparent and well-communicated by our account manager."
"In our case, we didn't pay for each product separately. We simply paid for all those companies that provided the components."
"​The cost of licensing is very high. One should go for the product only if they need to ensure message reliability and they cannot afford to lose messages.​"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Construction Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
32%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise15
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PubSub+ Event Broker?
The pricing and setup cost of PubSub+ Platform is very seamless and reliable for medium and large-scale enterprises. For small-sized enterprises, it may be a higher cost, or they may be looking for...
What needs improvement with PubSub+ Event Broker?
PubSub+ Platform could improve by simplifying some advanced configurations and providing better visualization for event flow. Some advanced configurations in PubSub+ Platform could be made simpler ...
What is your primary use case for PubSub+ Event Broker?
PubSub+ Platform's main use case in our company is real-time data streaming using applications and API integrations. We are working on an IoT-based application, and our company handles most of the ...
What needs improvement with TIBCO Enterprise Message Service?
One problem is the license cost. If we take Kafka, it's an open source platform, Apache Kafka, but with TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, the license cost is significantly higher. The message rate ...
What is your primary use case for TIBCO Enterprise Message Service?
The main use case for the product is that for the analytics we will be using TIBCO Spotfire.
What advice do you have for others considering TIBCO Enterprise Message Service?
Currently I am using TIBCO as well as I am getting trained on cybersecurity tools. I am using TIBCO Spotfire currently, the BI tool, Spotfire from TIBCO.
 

Also Known As

PubSub+ Event Broker, PubSub+ Event Portal
Enterprise Message Service
 

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Sample Customers

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 
BNL, SunGard, TUI Group, UTi Worldwide, Yellow Pages Group
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