We performed a comparison between Amazon SQS and IBM MQ 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."I am able to find out what's going on very easily."
"With SQS, we can trigger events in various cloud environments. It offers numerous benefits for us."
"The solution is easy to scale and cost-effective."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The libraries that connect and manage the queues are rich in features."
"I appreciate that Amazon SQS is fully integrated with Amazon and can be accessed through normal functions or serverless functions, making it very user-friendly. Additionally, the features are comparable to those of other solutions."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon SQS is the interface."
"It's very quick and easy to build or set up Amazon SQS."
"Reliable integration between MQ servers is the most valuable feature."
"It's ability to scale, it's ability to do guaranteed delivery and it's ability to do point-to-point of what we subscribe are the most valuable features."
"The methodology and the way in which the platform has been produced as a standard is most valuable. There are so many different versions of it now, but the actual basic functionality and the simplicity of it have made it far easier to be implemented in so many different instances. When I worked with the OS/2 or PS/2 machine environment, the messaging mechanisms were based upon IBM MQ. It is so versatile, which is the main reason that I'm a fan of it."
"It also has a backup queue concept and topics, features that I have not seen anywhere else. I like these features very much."
"This product has good security."
"The feature I find most effective for ensuring message delivery without loss is the backup threshold. This feature allows for automatic retries of transactional messages within a specified threshold."
"I like the MQ's simplicity and rock-solid stability. I've never experienced a failure in two decades caused by the product itself. It has only failed due to human error."
"This initial setup is not complex at all. Deploying it was very easy."
"Support could be improved."
"It would be easier to have a dashboard that allows us to see everything and manage everything since we have so many queues."
"Sending or receiving messages takes some time, and it could be quicker."
"Be cautious around pay-as-you-use licensing as costs can become expensive."
"Sometimes, we have to switch to another component similar to SQS because the patching tool for SQS is relatively slow for us."
"There are some issues with SQS's transaction queue regarding knowing if something has been received."
"The solution is not available on-premises so that rules out any customers looking for the messaging solution on-premises."
"The initial setup of Amazon SQS is in the middle range of difficulty. You need to learn Amazon AWS and know how to navigate, create resources, and structures, and provide rules."
"The installation of product upgrades and patches is very difficult. It requires the use of the IBM Installation Manager (IM)."
"The issue is that they're using a very old clustering model."
"If they could have some front-end monitoring tool that could be easily available for the team to use, that could be great."
"We would like to see the IBM technical support team extend their hand to providing support for other cloud vendors like Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS"
"I would like to see faster monitoring tools for this solution."
"It would be nice if we could use the cluster facilities because we are doing active/passive configuration use."
"The product does not allow users to access data from API or external networks since it can only be used in a closed network, making it an area where improvements are required."
"IBM HQ's scalability isn't the best."
Amazon SQS is ranked 4th in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 12 reviews while IBM MQ is ranked 2nd in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 158 reviews. Amazon SQS is rated 8.0, while IBM MQ is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon SQS writes "Stable, useful interface, and scales well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM MQ writes "Reliable and stable solution that includes support from the IBM technical team". Amazon SQS is most compared with Apache Kafka, Redis, Amazon MQ, Anypoint MQ and Oracle Event Hub Cloud Service, whereas IBM MQ is most compared with Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, VMware RabbitMQ, Red Hat AMQ and Anypoint MQ. See our Amazon SQS vs. IBM MQ report.
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