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, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Message Queue (MQ) Software."The solution is very easy to work with."
"Clustering is one of its most valuable features."
"RabbitMQ and Kafka require more steps for setup than IBM MQ. Installation of the IBM product is very simple."
"I think the whole product is useful. Their database and all is very good, and the product is fine. The fact that it ensures message delivery is probably the most important thing. I also like that you're able to trace and track everything. If it doesn't arrive at the destination, it will go back to the queue, and no message will be lost."
"The most valuable feature is that it's a very strong integration platform but it is quite a monolithic solution. It's got everything."
"The most valuable feature of IBM MQ is transaction processing."
"The most valuable feature of IBM MQ is it has all the features necessary for contemporary messaging, not only for the financial industry but for any application."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability that it provides its users to handle different kinds of rules."
"There are many complications with IBM MQ servers."
"The worst part is the monitoring or admin, especially in the ACE or Broker. There is always a problem of transparency. In MQ you can observe any process and you know exactly what's going on behind the scenes, but with the ACE or Broker, it's a problem monitoring the HTTP inputs. It's like a black box."
"I believe there is too much code to be done in order to handle the elements that you develop."
"I would like to see message duplication included."
"I'm not sure that current version has event-driven mechanism requests that people go for. I would like the latest version to come with both type of event mechanisms: an email server and a POP server. If that is not there, then that would be a great addition."
"With IBM products, there's less marketing. If they do more demos and more seminars on their products, it will be very useful. On a given day. I get seminar invites for many vendors and products, but for IBM, I may get an invite once or twice a year."
"I would like to see it integrate with the newer ways of messaging, such as Kafka. They might say that you have IBM Integration Bus to do that stuff, but it would be great if MQ could, out-of-the-box, listen to public Kafka."
"The solution should offer a freeware version, free vouchers, or certifications for learning purposes and building knowledge base."
"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 RabbitMQ, Red Hat AMQ and Amazon SQS, whereas Software AG Apama is most compared with Oracle BAM, TIBCO Streambase CEP and Apache Flink.
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