We compared IBM MQ and VMware RabbitMQ based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
IBM MQ is praised for its reliability, scalability, security, and seamless integration capabilities, with positive feedback on customer service, setup expenses, and licensing. On the other hand, VMware RabbitMQ is commended for its message queueing abilities, integration, scalability, and support. Areas for enhancement in IBM MQ include improvements in certain aspects, while VMware RabbitMQ users seek better documentation, UI, stability, performance, error handling, message routing, and clustering support.
Features: IBM MQ is valued for its reliability, scalability, security, and ease of integration. Users appreciate its ability to handle high volumes of messages without loss or delay and its robust encryption protocols. It seamlessly connects with different applications and platforms. On the other hand, VMware RabbitMQ excels in message queueing capabilities, seamless integration, scalability, and community support.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for IBM MQ received positive remarks, with users finding it reasonable and cost-effective. The setup costs were considered manageable, allowing swift implementation. In comparison, users expressed satisfaction with the affordable setup cost of VMware RabbitMQ and its flexible licensing options., IBM MQ users have praised its efficiency, communication integration, and streamlined workflows. The product is reliable, scalable, and easy to use, resulting in cost savings and increased productivity. On the other hand, users of VMware RabbitMQ have reported increased efficiency, seamless integration with existing infrastructure, and reduced downtime. The platform is praised for its scalability, reliability, extensive documentation, and strong community support.
Room for Improvement: IBM MQ product has received user feedback regarding areas that require enhancement, whereas VMware RabbitMQ has received feedback on areas including documentation, user interface, stability, performance, error handling, message routing, and support for clustering and scaling.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews for IBM MQ indicate that users mentioned different timeframes for establishing new tech solutions, with deployment taking three months and setup ranging from one week to one week. The reviews for VMware RabbitMQ also mention varying durations, with some users spending three months on deployment and an additional week on setup, while others mentioned a week for both. It is important to carefully evaluate the context in which these terms are used to determine if they refer to the same period or should be considered separately., IBM MQ's customer service is highly regarded for its promptness, effectiveness, and level of expertise. Users describe the support team as helpful, courteous, and professional. In comparison, VMware RabbitMQ's customer service is praised for its responsiveness, reliability, and efficient problem-solving abilities.
The summary above is based on 27 interviews we conducted recently with IBM MQ and VMware RabbitMQ users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The first things are its simplicity and its robustness. Compared to any other product, it's the most robust I've worked with. And it's extremely easy to manage."
"IBM is still adding some features and coding some other systems on the security end. However, it has the most security features I've seen in a communication solution. Security is the most important thing for our purposes."
"Offers good performance as well as scalability and stability."
"It also has a backup queue concept and topics, features that I have not seen anywhere else. I like these features very much."
"I haven't seen any severe issues related to it. Most of the time it's running. That is the advantage of IBM MQ."
"Whenever payments are happening, such as incoming payments to the bank, we need to notify the customer. With MQ we can actually do that asynchronously. We don't want to notify the customer for each and every payment but, rather, more like once a day. That kind of thing can be enabled with the help of MQ."
"IBM MQ is robust compared to other products in the market. It also gives you support from the IBM team."
"I have found that the solution scales well."
"The most valuable feature is asynchronous calls, which are easy to configure."
"The solution can scale."
"The most valuable feature is that it's really customizable."
"The security is great."
"Companies can scale the solution, so long as they have server room."
"Simple and straightforward admin portals: Made it easy for users and worked out excellently for our requirements"
"Very sophisticated routing control and priority messaging capabilities"
"RabbitMQ will help to remove a lot of the complexities and create a loosely coupled codebase."
"Scaling is difficult with IBM MQ."
"It could provide more monitoring tools and some improvement to the UI. I would also like to see more throughput in future versions."
"It would be nice if we could use the cluster facilities because we are doing active/passive configuration use."
"It would be an advantage if they can include streaming in IBM MQ, similar to Kafka. Kafka is used mainly for streaming purposes. This feature is clearly lacking in IBM MQ. If they add this feature to IBM MQ, it will have an edge over other products."
"I can't say pricing is good."
"At a recent conference, I went to a presentation that had the latest version and it has amazing stuff that's coming out. So, I am excited to use those, specifically surrounding the web console and the fact that it's API integrated."
"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"
"The installation of product upgrades and patches is very difficult. It requires the use of the IBM Installation Manager (IM)."
"The availability could be better."
"They should improve on the ability to scale your queues in a very simple and elegant way with the same power that they have would be great."
"The product has to improve the crisis management, especially in memory issues."
"There are some security concerns that have been raised with this product."
"The next release should include some of the flexibility and features that Kafka offers."
"VMware RabbitMQ needs to create a new queue system."
"If you're outside IP address range, the clustering no longer has all the features which is problematic."
"VMware RabbitMQ's configuration process could be easier to understand."
IBM MQ is ranked 2nd in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 158 reviews while VMware RabbitMQ is ranked 5th in Message Queue (MQ) Software with 39 reviews. IBM MQ is rated 8.4, while VMware RabbitMQ is rated 8.2. 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 VMware RabbitMQ writes "A cloud solution for asynchronous call with easy configuration". IBM MQ is most compared with ActiveMQ, Apache Kafka, Red Hat AMQ, Amazon SQS and PubSub+ Event Broker, whereas VMware RabbitMQ is most compared with ActiveMQ, Apache Kafka, Anypoint MQ, Red Hat AMQ and PubSub+ Event Broker. See our IBM MQ vs. VMware RabbitMQ report.
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