Camunda Scalability
It is limited. The way it works is that when you are starting, you have to create a full autonomous Camunda instance with its own database. It can work, but it is not out of the box. If you want to have minimal scalability of Camunda, you can do it, but it will be linked to a single database, which can become a bottleneck. So, if your database sizing is not great enough, when you scale Camunda, there will be a performance issue. Usually, it works great, but it depends on your business case and your intent in using Camunda.
View full review »My company has 6,000 employees, out of which around 100 people use the product.
It is a scalable solution.
Camunda is a new product in our company, but once we show the abilities of the tool and showcase it by going live with the solution, our company's entire client base will open up.
There are no admins required to take care of Camunda.
My company plans to use more of the product in the future.
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Camunda
April 2024
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reviewer846930
Product Owner at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
So far, we didn't face an issue with scalability. We started before version 1, and we are currently on the verge of moving to version 8. I would have more input after we have fully migrated to version 8.
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reviewer2091747
Architect intégrateur des processus d'affaire at a government with 10,001+ employees
In our strategy, we use containers on-premises to manage scalability using Docker or OpenShift.
View full review »I would rate the scalability a five out of ten. Scalability would be improved with better documentation and resources. IBM BPM, for instance, offers extensive documentation and support teams for various issues. Camunda's documentation feels less comprehensive in comparison.
Additionally, it would be helpful to have more readily available use cases on the internet. This is important for doing POCs [Proofs of Concept] and showcasing how Camunda can be used. IBM BPM has many example use cases for systems like currency exchange or HR management.
Camunda lacks this, often showing only very small processes that can be difficult for clients to envision within their own needs.
So, the lack of readily available use cases affects the ability of Camunda to adapt to your customer's needs.
View full review »It offers excellent scalability. I would rate it ten out of ten. Our clientele comprises enterprises, medium-sized businesses, and small organizations.
View full review »Scalability is something that we have been worried about because everything that runs in Camunda is run using Postgres. It is very difficult to scale when the number of processes increases. Because Camunda uses Postgres, we had scalability challenges. We had to do a lot of fine-tuning in the Postgres database to support increased processes.
The main problem with scalability is related to the database. That's why they created Camunda Cloud, which is Zeebe. They know they have this dependency on Postgres, which is hurting its ability to scale up.
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reviewer1954143
Staff Software Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is very scalable. It's built on a similar architecture to Kafka, which we know is a very scalable platform. The scalability has been one of the most important features that they have designed their product with. They had scalability in mind from the start.
We have tested it for thousands of process instances per second. There are some blogs from Camunda that show it even goes to millions of process instances per second.
While it's very scalable, it would be great if auto-scaling capabilities were added to it. We haven't seen any issues in production related to scalability, but one area that really could help out would be to have dynamic resizing of the cluster. Right now, you have to do capacity planning. You plan for the capacity that you need in the next couple of years and then size your cluster accordingly.
Having said that, I haven't seen problems with the product so far.
View full review »Camunda is scalable. At present, my company has three users. By next week, four more users will be added. Over a couple of weeks, a few more users will be added.
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reviewer2227845
VP and Principal Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
In my organization, at least 100 users are using this solution. I would rate it an eight out of ten in terms of scalability.
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Ivana Sabatova
Senior Business Consultant, Managing Partner at sabi consulting
Our purpose is very simple, it is only for trainings for our customers who come to us to learn how to create process application. I do about four trainings a year and they usually have from four to six attendees. So it's about 20 people per year who have access for only two months each.
They receive the access to their personal account for two months. They receive it when they attend the course and they have access two months after the course and then the account is closed and the tenant is deleted.
In terms of how much staff is needed for deployment and maintenance, it is just me and one programmer.
Hard to say if we will increase usage. I am in communication with another company which is developing their own process platform, so maybe I will switch from Camunda to their platform in the future.
Camunda is a scalable product.
Around 10 to 15 people in my company use the product.
We have a back-end integration. So, no user logs in to Camunda on a day-to-day basis. One or two developers log in to the solution when there is some issue, or some application gets stuck.
I rate Camunda a five or six out of ten for scalability.
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SeanMcClellan
Managing Director at Cheltenham Consultants
Scalability-wise, it's fine. It sites within the Kubernetes nodes and scales with those.
I am the technical design authority that chose the product. A whole team of developers is working on it. As it's not live yet, the users are testers and developers, and there are approximately 40 of them.
When it goes live, there will be several thousand users, but that won't be until next year. In terms of expanding usage, potentially, we might because there are a lot of workflows that we could map out of the current one. The one that we are doing now is quite complex and we needed to embed the service. Potentially, it could go across the whole of this business area, which is something that we are thinking about.
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Simon Wanyutu
Founder at Simpro Tech
It is my understanding, that the solution is highly scalable, but I haven't had the chance to test its scalability.
I haven't encountered any issues with the solution crashing, so I don't have any experience in troubleshooting such problems.
However, I'm willing to experiment with the different versions I have and try to find a solution if any issues arise.
We currently have three users.
Our original plan was to implement this solution for a client. However, I found it challenging to promote the product without having the necessary technical expertise to modify the code in certain areas. I had to go through additional training, which, as I mentioned earlier, was a disadvantage since it made me hesitant to deploy the solution in a financial institution.
I don't believe I have the necessary accreditation or certification to deploy the solution. I haven't undergone the required training or been formally verified as competent in this area.
View full review »The scalability is quite good, we've had no challenges with it.
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reviewer2328264
Digitalization PM at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I rate the tool’s scalability a five out of ten. We have ten users. The product is used once or twice a week.
View full review »The solution does not have high scalability. It can be useful for complex types of projects.
I rate the solution’s scalability a seven out of ten.
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reviewer1195653
BPM Technical Referent at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is a scalable solution. We use four containers for our production environment. It is scalable and easy to maintain.
We haven't encountered any problems with scalability during both the testing and deployment phases.
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MARCELOLIMA
Gerente do Escritório de Processos at SEAD
The solution is scalable.
View full review »The platform is more suitable for medium companies. Enterprises might need more automated and customizable solutions. I rate Camunda's scalability a nine out of ten.
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reviewer2343942
Delivery Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
All our implementations have 50 to 100 users.
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VishwaReddy
Engineering Manager at nagra
It is easy to scale. We have about 50 to 60 users, and it is used on a daily basis.
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Rodrigo Carlstrom
BPM Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
It's a very scalable platform in my experience.
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Piotr Mazur
Digital Transformation Solution Manager at Altkom Software & Consutling
The Camunda BPMN Platform is very flexible and gives several options to deploy and scale it. Process Engine can be deployed as:
- Embedded process engine – in your custom application (ex. Spring boot application)
- Shared – Camunda deployed in Application Server or Servlet Container (can be a Spring boot app)
- Standalone instance - it can be deployed as a microservice
These options give you a wide range of possibilities to scale your application. From horizontal scaling to vertical. Moreover, it can be deployed on-premises, cloud, or private cloud, including autoscaling mechanisms.
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reviewer1381905
Head Of Applications & Data Architecture at a maritime company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is scalable, it can fit any size business.
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reviewer1744827
Founding partner at a government with self employed
It is scalable for what we need. We have five people who are using this platform, and we plan to increase its usage. We are implementing it in some of the remote offices, and we would be able to expand it next year.
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Abdurrahman Gori
Technical Manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
This is a scalable platform. We have about 600 users and about 20 superusers. The superusers are developers, admins, and process engineers. They are a mix of process, business support, mobile app developers, and so forth.
View full review »It's very scalable.
The only time we have a scalability problem is when the application team doesn't use it properly. For example, I've seen many BPM build teams, they didn't set up a separate database for their application data. They just used the schema that's supporting the tool engine. When they do that, the more you load up the database schema that supports the tool, sooner or later, the tool starts to bog down on server startup. Instead, they need to put all their application data in a separate database.
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reviewer1396116
Digital Engineering Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
It is a scalable product. We do not have much on the cloud right now. It is less than 5 nodes. But we could expand that if we needed to.
As I understand more of the benefits of using the product, I have more plans to increase usage. With any new customer that has a proper use case, Camunda will be my first choice. Even if it is just for the fact that we know we can deploy fast. We can start with a single instance and after that, we can scale without hesitating too much in the planning stages. It is very comfortable for the customer to see things happen quickly. From our experience, most new customers prefer to start small. Better to start fast and get them going and to build them a little at a time to more automated projects than to wait around with nothing seeming to happen.
I have been around 10 years or more in this industry as a solution architect. With this product, we have the flexibility and speed to serve customers quickly and that is important.
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AlonBear
Co Founder at Dr. Agile
It's a bit early, so I haven't stress-tested it yet for scalability.
We have three users.
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Uday Shankar Tummala
Practice Lead at Sky Solutions, LLC
It's highly scalable and offers high availability. We used eight in a containerless server and also on a shared server.
I have work with different organizations, particularly with Camunda BPM. These organizations that we have recently started with are still in the beginning stages of the practice. Previously, we had heavy usage and had to support two to three clients simultaneously.
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Oscar Mejia
IT-Services Manager & Solution Architect at Stratis
Camunda BPM is a scalable solution. It's a JAVA-based application, and we were able to install it in AWS and do all the things we wanted to do.
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Mohamed Alshishani
Chief, Service Delivery at IGA
We didn't experience any issues with the scalability of Camunda BPM. It has good scalability by default. We are in Information Authority and we're looking on behalf of other government agencies, i.e., the civil service correspondence system.
We are creating different systems for the VPN to meet the processes. We are using Camunda BPM for 200 to 300 users. We use it almost every day.
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Peter Barbiers
Managing consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I think it is scalable, but I don't have experience with scaling it.
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reviewer1074954
PMO Office Digital Transformation, Ministry of the Interior at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We will see how the scalability is in a few weeks, but we are going to do some trials and testing on the scalability. For the past two years, Camunda has been used to develop a new system, a very big system application, that is going to be used here in Spain. In a few weeks, it will be used by about 1,000 final users. As far as the programmers and technical people working with it, there are about 50 people.
View full review »The solution is quite scalable and functional. We have seven to 10 users doing process modelling. They're focused on archiving processes.
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Mohammed Sulty
Principal Consultant at Palmira
Since we are using Camunda as a core solution, a core engine of our system, we are going to continue using it. I'm not willing to change it down the line. There's no plan for us to change it and we are not thinking about changing it. It has all functionalities and we are using about 50% of the engine itself in terms of its capability. We will continue to invest in utilizing all Camunda functionalities in the BPM engine.
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Andres Murillo
Innovation Director at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
It is very scalable and it scales horizontally. You can basically automate every single process in the company.
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Rahul Aryan
Business process manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We have many people in my organization using this solution.
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SjefVan Leeuwen
Senior Software Engineer at a non-profit with 201-500 employees
There's a free version and an enterprise version, so it depends on which you choose but it's very scalable, but you have to understand it's persistence strategies as it uses a centralized database. That's normal for a BPM, however. In their new product Zeebe, which is a derivative of Camunda, they've made it completely decentralized and scalable via partitions, which might be more generic and easier to understand than the forementioned persistence strategies of Camunda. Because of partitioning, Zeebe is also a step forward into better orchestration in a micro service landscape. On the other hand that comes with the cost of complexity of installation. I would say for small to mid-size companies Camunda is scalable enough.
We're using it in the innovation field labs for the government so there's about potentially 350 municipalities there, and the number of people who are participating in this common ground field lab is about 150 potential developers, product owners, business analists that can be tied together in their disciplines around the Camunda Process and Decision Modelling Engines. A few products in those labs are now being developed using Camunda.
View full review »They support a scalable solution on cluster mode. We don't run into a massive scale, but we run with 1 to 5 million.
The businesses we support range from small to medium.
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Dmitry Kositsyn
CTO at Unitarius
We have about 100 people using the solution at this time.
We only have developers that use it. We are a development company.
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Tomas Mikes
CEO at CodeDock.com at Trask solutions a.s.
It is hard to say if this solution is scalable. We started with Camunda in Germany, and now they can't form them into a global company. We've contacted their support team on this, and sometimes it takes very long to get an answer from them.
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reviewer1689150
Enterprise Architect/Team Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The product is scalable.
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Alberto Margarido
CGL at Dynamus Clube
We haven't really experimented with scalability at all. We haven't used it for very long. The process we are running now does not have a large volume. Our processing is not too high today. I didn't push the framework to see how it goes with big volume data.
Currently, we have only three people that are using it in the company.
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Milan Cvijanovic
IT Architect at Levio
Right now, we don't have too many users on the solution, but when it is done, we'll have about 25,000. It's quite scalable.
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Devendra Kumar
Engineering Manger at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
On the scalability side, on the paid version, there are a lot of other options. When I think on the free community side, the community version, not all options are available. But, for me, it's a price over use case.
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Zoran Cerkez
Owner/CEO at IT SPHERE
I don't have any experience with scaling Camunda in practice. However, I have read about it and feel that it's a scalable solution. We can install a lot of different installation and they can work together.
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OpChOff877
Chief Operations Officer (COO) at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
There are a couple of areas that can be a problem for scalability.
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reviewer1403916
Principal at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We have not done any scaling yet.
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Rodrigo Carlstrom
BPM Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
On one occasion, we did automated tests with Selenium. After, we had a fairly large number of processes running in the engine and this slowed the performance, but did not represent a case in production.
View full review »The lightweight architecture permits us to scale better than other traditional BPM solutions. The use of Spring Boot and Docker is a modern approach to manage this scalability and high availability.
View full review »It is possible to adjust all the aspects of this platform, if you know what you are doing.
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reviewer969792
E-Commerce Business Partner at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Camunda Platform is best suited for enterprise-sized companies.
We have approximately 50 people using this solution. We do not plan to increase usage at this time.
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reviewer1595319
Founder at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
We have not yet scaled it or integrated it.
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Camunda
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Camunda. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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