We performed a comparison between IBM MQ and Software AG Apama based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, IBM, VMware and others in Message Queue (MQ) Software."The solution is very easy to work with."
"I haven't seen any issues with respect to the message loss."
"Encryption and the fact that we have not had any data loss issues so far have been very valuable features. IBM MQ is well encrypted so that we are well within our compliance and regulatory requirements, so that is a plus point as well."
"There is no dependency on the end party service's run status."
"Whenever payments are happening, such as incoming payments to the bank, we need to notify the customer. With MQ we can actually do that asynchronously. We don't want to notify the customer for each and every payment but, rather, more like once a day. That kind of thing can be enabled with the help of MQ."
"The system integration is good."
"This initial setup is not complex at all. Deploying it was very easy."
"We have implemented business to business transactions over MQ messaging. The guaranteed and once only delivery ensures business integrity."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability that it provides its users to handle different kinds of rules."
"It could provide more monitoring tools and some improvement to the UI. I would also like to see more throughput in future versions."
"It is expensive. The cost is high. There should be more improvement in the new age of technologies."
"It's not always easy for applications to connect to IBM MQ, but I think it's fine in general."
"The solution should offer a freeware version, free vouchers, or certifications for learning purposes and building knowledge base."
"The main issue we are having with the solution is due to the connection dropouts which have been going on for a long time now."
"Scaling is difficult with IBM MQ."
"I wanted to upgrade Windows Server. It's not that easy to move."
"You should be able to increase the message size. It should be dynamic. Each queue has a limitation of 5,000."
"The ease of development and maintenance should be enhanced, but it is difficult due to the use of the proprietary programming language in the product."
IBM MQ is ranked 2nd in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 158 reviews while Software AG Apama is ranked 1st in CEP with 1 review. IBM MQ is rated 8.4, while Software AG Apama is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of IBM MQ writes "Offers the ability to batch metadata transfers between systems that support MQ as the communication method". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Software AG Apama writes "A tool to send out promotional notifications that need to improve areas, like deployment and maintenance". IBM MQ is most compared with ActiveMQ, Apache Kafka, VMware Tanzu Data Services, Red Hat AMQ and PubSub+ Event Broker, whereas Software AG Apama is most compared with Oracle BAM.
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