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PubSub+ Platform vs TIBCO Enterprise Message Service comparison

 

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

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 (9th), Event Monitoring (11th), Streaming Analytics (15th)
TIBCO Enterprise Message Se...
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Business Activity Monitoring (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category, the mindshare of PubSub+ Platform is 12.8%, down from 16.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Enterprise Message Service is 10.0%, up from 10.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PubSub+ Platform12.8%
TIBCO Enterprise Message Service10.0%
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

"Because we use it as a message broker, it makes information flow very seamless."
"We have seen at least a 50 percent increase in productivity (compared to using Kafka) when using Solace for sharing changes in real-time, onboarding new subscribers, and modifying data sets."
"As of now, the most valuable aspects are the topic-based subscription and the fanout exchange that we are using."
"We like the seamless flexibility in protocol exchange offering without writing a code."
"I rate the PubSub+ Platform a 9 out of 10."
"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 best features of PubSub+ Platform are its real-time simulation, real-time event data streaming, and integration with any IoT applications."
"In my assessment of Solace against other products — as I was responsible for evaluating various products and bringing the right tool into companies in the past — I worked with multiple platforms like RabbitMQ, Confluent, Kafka, and various other tools in the market. But I found the event mesh capability to be a very interesting as well as fulfilling capability, towards what we want to achieve from a digital-integration-strategy point of view... It's distributed, yet it is intelligently connected. It can also span and I can plug and play any number of brokers into the event mesh, so it's a great deal. That's a differentiator."
"It is very useful tool. It is also very easy to learn and implement.​"
"TIBCO Enterprise Message Service's most valuable features are rapid zero-code integration and its large number of adapters and plugins."
"TIBCO Enterprise Message Service is a security and reliability product with persistent messaging, asynchronous and synchronous messaging for the queues and topics."
"The Enterprise Messaging Server will store the message and wait for other subscribers to come onto the network."
"I like TIBCO's ability to create versioned queues and persistent messages."
"The setup was done by TIBCO. It has been stable and has a server."
"It allows us to achieve synchronous as well as asynchronous communication with the added advantage of making the communication reliable."
"It's a very secure and useful product wherein most of our clients are using this messaging product."
 

Cons

"The integrations could improve in PubSub+ Event Broker."
"It could be cheaper. It could also have easier usage. It is a brilliant product, but it is quite complex to use."
"The deployment process is complex."
"I would like them to design topic and queue schemas, mapping them to the enterprise data structure."
"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. It's important for the platforms to work. Typically, they support only LDAP-based connectivity to our SQL Servers."
"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."
"If you create one event in the past, you cannot resend it."
"The solution could be improved by enhancing the message pooling size for persistent messages to handle both small and large messages effectively."
"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."
"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."
"​Since all the communications goes through this product, it acts as a single point of failure."
"Overall, my experience with the support team has been disappointing."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"It could be cheaper. Its licensing is on a yearly basis."
"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."
"The price of the solution is expensive."
"The price of PubSub+ Event Broker is reasonable for the capability it offers. However, when compared to others solutions on the market it is expensive."
"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."
"I would rate the product's pricing a ten out of ten."
"​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.​"
"In our case, we didn't pay for each product separately. We simply paid for all those companies that provided the components."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Construction Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
8%
University
8%
Comms Service Provider
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise15
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

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.
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...
What is your primary use case for PubSub+ Event Broker?
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...
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
 

Overview

 

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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