We performed a comparison between Anypoint MQ and Apache Kafka 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."It's easy to use and comes as a bundle package with the Anypoint Platform, removing the need for any complex setup."
"The solution is very scalable with solid performance and the capability of extending it using any custom Java in case you don't have anything out of the box. MDP is strong. It is good compared to other products regarding its capabilities in managing or orchestrating the issue load."
"The use of ACK is valuable."
"Messaging and queueing solution that has good stability and scalability. It can be used for a variety of messaging types."
"The most valuable feature of Anypoint MQ is it comes with MuleSoft so we don't have to maintain separate components."
"Initial setup was very straightforward. Deployment is a cakewalk."
"The solution is scalable, and its performance is quite good."
"Good interface, simple to use and stable."
"Excellent speeds for publishing messages faster."
"The most valuable feature is the performance."
"The most valuable features of the solution revolve around areas like the latency part, where the tool offers very little latency and the sequencing part."
"Deployment is speedy."
"With Kafka, events and streaming are persistent, and multiple subscribers can consume the data. This is an advantage of Kafka compared to simple queue-based solutions."
"It's an open-source product, which means it doesn't cost us anything to use it."
"Kafka is scalable. It can manage a high volume of data from many sources."
"valuable features relate to microservices architecture and working on KStream and KSQL DB as a microservices event bus."
"There are so many solutions like this, but this is not as mature as those products. The other MQ products have the capability of reprocessing and maintaining the persistence of the data. They can handle large volumes and large messages, but Anypoint MQ doesn't have those capabilities."
"Anypoint MQ could improve the user interface."
"The solution's licensing model is expensive and could be improved."
"The solution is very costly. The solution should provide a package with fewer capabilities at a lower price for specific companies that don’t have a big IT budget. Not every customer requires all the capabilities of the software. It will be a good fit in the market, and they will easily sell it more."
"When we are integrating with other applications, readily available connectors make it easy. However, when it comes to external applications, connectivity isn't as straightforward."
"The product does not provide a priority level for the message."
"The customer service is not good enough"
"It's extremely expensive to change things in Anypoint MQ. There's also this issue of slow output of messages, and that needs to be improved."
"Maintaining and configuring Apache Kafka can be challenging, especially when you want to fine-tune its behavior."
"Some vendors don't offer extra features for monitoring."
"Kafka is a nightmare to administer."
"The user interface is one weakness. Sometimes, our data isn't as accessible as we'd like. It takes a lot of work to retrieve the data and the index."
"Stability of the API and the technical support could be improved."
"They need to have a proper portal to do everything because, at this moment, Kafka is lagging in this regard."
"Lacks elasticity and the ability to scale down."
"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."
Anypoint MQ is ranked 7th in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 10 reviews while Apache Kafka is ranked 1st in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 78 reviews. Anypoint MQ is rated 7.0, while Apache Kafka is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Anypoint MQ writes "Useful for asynchronous messaging, but it lacks features, and the storage is limited". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Apache Kafka writes "Real-time processing and reliable for data integrity". Anypoint MQ is most compared with ActiveMQ, Amazon SQS, VMware Tanzu Data Services, IBM MQ and PubSub+ Event Broker, whereas Apache Kafka is most compared with IBM MQ, Amazon SQS, Red Hat AMQ, PubSub+ Event Broker and VMware Tanzu Data Services. See our Anypoint MQ vs. Apache Kafka report.
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