We performed a comparison between Apache Kafka and PubSub+ Event Broker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Message Queue (MQ) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Good horizontal scaling and design."
"The valuable features are the group community and support."
"Kafka is an open-source tool that's easy to use in our country, and the command line interface is powerful."
"Kafka, as compared with other messaging system options, is great for large scale message processing applications. It offers high throughput with built-in fault-tolerance and replication."
"The most valuable feature is the messaging function and reliability."
"Ease of use."
"The most valuable feature is that it can handle high volume."
"Apache Kafka has good integration capabilities and has plenty of adapters in its ecosystem if you want to build something. There are adapters for many platforms, such as Java, Azure, and Microsoft's ecosystem. Other solutions, such as Pulsar have fewer adapters available."
"The most valuable feature of PubSub+ Event Broker is the scaling integration. Prior to using the solution, it was done manually with a file, and it can be done instantly live."
"Guaranteed Messaging allows for us to transport messages between on-prem and the cloud without any loss of data."
"The event portal and the diversity of deployment options in a hybrid landscape are the most valuable features."
"We like the seamless flexibility in protocol exchange offering without writing a code."
"One of the main reasons for using PubSub+ is that it is a proper event manager that can handle events in a reactive way."
"As of now, the most valuable aspects are the topic-based subscription and the fanout exchange that we are using."
"Going from something where we had outages and capacity issues constantly to a system that was able to scale with the massive market data and messaging spikes that happened during the initial stages of the COVID crisis in March, we were able to scale with 40 plus percent growth in our platform over the course of days."
"The valuable feature of PubSub+ Event Broker is the speed of processing, publishing, and consumption."
"There is a lot of information available for the solution and it can be overwhelming to sort through."
"The manageability should be improved. There are lots of things we need to manage and it should have a function that enables us to manage them all cohesively."
"Kafka is complex and there is a little bit of a learning curve."
"Pulsar gives more scalability to an even grouping, but Apache Kafka is used more if you want to send something in a time series-based. If this does not matter to you then Pulsar could be more customizable. Apache Kafka is nothing but a streaming system with local storage."
"Something that could be improved is having an interface to monitor the consuming rate."
"would like to see real-time event-based consumption of messages rather than the traditional way through a loop. The traditional messaging system works by listing and looping with a small wait to check to see what the messages are. A push system is where you have something that is ready to receive a message and when the message comes in and hits the partition, it goes straight to the consumer versus the consumer having to pull. I believe this consumer approach is something they are working on and may come in an upcoming release. However, that is message consumption versus message listening."
"Stability of the API and the technical support could be improved."
"The price for the enterprise version is quite high. It would be better to have a lower price."
"The product should allow third-party agents to be installed. Currently, it is quite proprietary."
"The licensing and the cost are the major pitfalls."
"The deployment process is complex."
"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."
"It could be cheaper. It could also have easier usage. It is a brilliant product, but it is quite complex to use."
"The ease of management could be approved. The GUI is very good, but to configure and manage these devices programmatically in the software version is not easy. For example, if I would like to spin up a new software broker, then I could in theory use the API, but it would require a considerable amount of development effort to do so. There should be a tool, or something that Solace supports, that we could use for this, e.g., a platform like Terraform where we could use infrastructure as code to configure our source appliances."
"The integrations could improve in PubSub+ Event Broker."
"If you create one event in the past, you cannot resend it."
Apache Kafka is ranked 1st in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 78 reviews while PubSub+ Event Broker is ranked 6th in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 15 reviews. Apache Kafka is rated 8.0, while PubSub+ Event Broker is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Apache Kafka writes "Real-time processing and reliable for data integrity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PubSub+ Event Broker writes "Event life cycle management changes the way a designer or architect will design a topic and discover what is available". Apache Kafka is most compared with IBM MQ, Amazon SQS, Red Hat AMQ, Anypoint MQ and VMware Tanzu Data Services, whereas PubSub+ Event Broker is most compared with IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, VMware Tanzu Data Services, Confluent and Amazon EventBridge. See our Apache Kafka vs. PubSub+ Event Broker report.
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