We performed a comparison between Apache Kafka, Aurea CX Messenger, and VMware RabbitMQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, IBM, Amazon and others in Message Queue (MQ) Software."This is a system for email and other small devices. There has been a relay of transactions continuously over the last two years it has been in production."
"The most valuable feature is the performance."
"It is easy to configure."
"We appreciate the ability to persistently and quickly write data, as well as the flexibility to customize it for multiple customers. Additionally, we like the ability to retain data within Apache Kafka and use features, such as time travel to access past customer data. The connection with other systems, such as Apache Kafka and IBM DB2."
"Good horizontal scaling and design."
"I have seen a return on investment with this solution."
"The most valuable feature of Apache Kafka is the clustering which is very easy to scale and we have multiple servers all over our platforms. It has been useful for stability and performance."
"A great streaming platform."
"ESB: Provides all kind of possibilities to resolve business needs. A lot of ready to use services plus custom Java services. I used a lot of them all."
"The solution offers excellent stability."
"The solution is highly scalable, this is very important for us. It can handle a lot of messages."
"SDM: User-friendly tool which allows for a seamless approach to performing hotfixes, if required."
"The Messenger Broker is a really good feature."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is very easy to develop. Most of it is graphical, but we also have the option to add any custom call that you need."
"Very sophisticated routing control and priority messaging capabilities"
"It is easy to use. The addition of more queues and more services can be managed very easily."
"Some of the most valuable features are publish and subscribe, fanout, and queues."
"The security is great."
"The solution can scale."
"It can be configured to be a very fast message broker. I like the stability, the built-in admin tools and plugin architecture."
"We use VMware RabbitMQ to transfer information from one point to another."
"Simple and straightforward admin portals: Made it easy for users and worked out excellently for our requirements"
"The ability to connect the producers and consumers must be improved."
"The solution can improve by having automation for developers. We have done many manual calculations and it has been difficult but if it was automated it would be much better."
"As an open-source project, Kafka is still fairly young and has not yet built out the stability and features that other open-source projects have acquired over the many years. If done correctly, Kafka can also take over the stream-processing space that technologies such as Apache Storm cover."
"Prioritization of messages in Apache Kafka could improve."
"The third party is not very stable and sometimes you have problems with this component. There are some developments in newer versions and we're about to try them out, but I'm not sure if it closes the gap."
"The management tool could be improved."
"Kafka requires non-trivial expertise with DevOps to deploy in production at scale. The organization needs to understand ZooKeeper and Kafka and should consider using additional tools, such as MirrorMaker, so that the organization can survive an availability zone or a region going down."
"Apache Kafka can improve by making the documentation more user-friendly. It would be beneficial if we could explain to customers in more detail how the solution operates but the documentation get highly technical quickly. For example, if they had a simple page where we can show the customers how it works without the need for the customer to have a computer science background."
"The improvement is that it should be on the cloud and use web services."
"I don't know if the last version has the cloud option, but maybe that could be good. That could be something that is included."
"You should not hurry with upgrades without testing the whole product completely."
"It should include/add more services with the product as per market demand. It should include custom Java services developed by any organization or provide a platform where users/developers can share ideas/custom services, etc."
"Aurea CX Messenger could improve by making better use of the new APIs"
"The solution needs to improve support for new, more recent protocols on the API."
"I was struggling with installing a few things. It would be good if was somewhat similar to RedHat. There should be more documentation regarding installation troubleshooting."
"The fact that a single queue can't be distributed across multiple instances/nodes is a major disadvantage."
"The support feature could benefit from some improvement in terms of accessibility and responsiveness."
"VMware RabbitMQ needs to create a new queue system."
"There are some security concerns that have been raised with this product."
"The solution needs improvement on performance."
"VMware RabbitMQ's configuration process could be easier to understand."
"RabbitMQ is clearly better supported on Linux than it is on Windows. There are idiosyncrasies in the Windows version that are not there on Linux."