We performed a comparison between Apache Kafka and PubSub+ Event Broker 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."Kafka's most valuable feature is its user-friendliness."
"It is easy to configure."
"The most valuable feature is the support for a high volume of data."
"Kafka can process messages in real-time, making it useful for applications that require near-instantaneous processing."
"The high availability is valuable. It is robust, and we can rely on it for a huge amount of data."
"The most valuable feature of Apache Kafka is its versatility. It can solve many use cases or can be a part of many use cases. Its fundamental value of it is in the real-time processing capability."
"The most valuable feature is the documentation, which is good and clear."
"The most valuable features are the stream API, consumer groups, and the way that the scaling takes place."
"When it comes to granularity, you can literally do anything regarding how the filtering works."
"Guaranteed Messaging allows for us to transport messages between on-prem and the cloud without any loss of data."
"One of the main reasons for using PubSub+ is that it is a proper event manager that can handle events in a reactive way."
"The most useful features has been the WAN optimization and probably the HybridEdge, which requires some third-party adapters or plugins. The idea that we can position Solace as a protocol-agnostic message transport fabric is key to our company having all manners of asynchronous messaging protocols from MQ, Kafka, JMS, etc. I really like the WAN optimization: Send once over a WAN, then distribute locally as many times as there are subscribers."
"The most valuable feature of PubSub+ Event Broker is the scaling integration. Prior to using the solution, it was done manually with a file, and it can be done instantly live."
"The event portal and the diversity of deployment options in a hybrid landscape are the most valuable features."
"In my assessment of Solace against other products — as I was responsible for evaluating various products and bringing the right tool into companies in the past — I worked with multiple platforms like RabbitMQ, Confluent, Kafka, and various other tools in the market. But I found the event mesh capability to be a very interesting as well as fulfilling capability, towards what we want to achieve from a digital-integration-strategy point of view... It's distributed, yet it is intelligently connected. It can also span and I can plug and play any number of brokers into the event mesh, so it's a great deal. That's a differentiator."
"We've built a lot of products into it and it's been quite easy to feed market data onto the systems and put entitlements and controls around that. That was a big win for us when we were consolidating our platforms down. Trying to have one event bus, one messaging bus, for the whole globe, and consolidate everything over time, has been key for us. We've been able to do that through one API, even if it's across the different languages."
"The interface has room for improvement, and there is a steep learning curve for Hadoop integration. It was a struggle learning to send from Hadoop to Kafka. In future releases, I'd like to see improvements in ETL functionality and Hadoop integration."
"Apache Kafka can improve by adding a feature out of the box which allows it to deliver only one message."
"The support on Apache Kafka 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 has performance issues that cause it to lag."
"There have been some challenges with monitoring Apache Kafka, as there are currently only a few production-grade solutions available, which are all under enterprise license and therefore not easily accessible. The speaker has not had access to any of these solutions and has instead relied on tools, such as Dynatrace, which do not provide sufficient insight into the Apache Kafka system. While there are other tools available, they do not offer the same level of real-time data as enterprise solutions."
"In Apache Kafka, it is currently difficult to create a consumer."
"It's not possible to substitute IBM MQ with Apache Kafka because the JMS part is not very stable."
"The deployment process is complex."
"I would like them to design topic and queue schemas, mapping them to the enterprise data structure."
"We've pointed out some things with the DMR piece, the event mesh, in edge cases where we could see a problem. Something like 99 percent of users wouldn't ever see this problem, but it has to do with if you get multiple bad clients sending data over a WAN, for example. That could then impact other clients."
"Some of the feature's gaps with some of the open-source vendors have been closed in a lot of ways. Being more agile and addressing those earlier could be an area for improvement."
"The licensing and the cost are the major pitfalls."
"It could be cheaper. It could also have easier usage. It is a brilliant product, but it is quite complex to use."
"If you create one event in the past, you cannot resend it."
"We have requested to be able to get into the payload to do dynamic topic hierarchy building. A current workaround is using the message's header, where the business data can be put into this header and be used for a dynamic topic lookup. I want to see this in action when there are a couple of hundred cases live. E.g., how does it perform? From an administration perspective, is the ease of use there?"
Apache Kafka is ranked 1st in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 76 reviews while PubSub+ Event Broker is ranked 6th in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 15 reviews. Apache Kafka is rated 8.0, while PubSub+ Event Broker is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Apache Kafka writes "Great access to multiple devices, with stability, at an affordable price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PubSub+ Event Broker writes "Event life cycle management changes the way a designer or architect will design a topic and discover what is available". Apache Kafka is most compared with IBM MQ, Amazon SQS, Red Hat AMQ, Anypoint MQ and VMware RabbitMQ, whereas PubSub+ Event Broker is most compared with IBM MQ, VMware RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Confluent and Amazon EventBridge. See our Apache Kafka vs. PubSub+ Event Broker report.
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