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PubSub+ Event Broker pros and cons

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JC
May 18, 2022
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.
DN
Jun 10, 2020
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.
SA
Jun 10, 2020
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.
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SS
Nov 25, 2020
When we went to add another installation in our private cloud, it was easy. We received support from Solace and the install was seamless with no issues.
MO
Jun 16, 2020
Going from something where we had outages and capacity issues constantly to a system that was able to scale with the massive market data and messaging spikes that happened during the initial stages of the COVID crisis in March, we were able to scale with 40 plus percent growth in our platform over the course of days.
NK
Jun 21, 2020
This solution reduces the latency to access changes in real-time and the effort required to onboard a new subscriber. It also reduces the maintenance of each of those interfaces because now the publisher and subscribers are decoupled. Event Broker handles all the communication and engagement. We can just push one update, then we don't have to know who is consuming it and what's happening to that publication downstream. It's all done by the broker, which is a huge benefit of using Event Broker.
YogeshKumar1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 17, 2023
One of the main reasons for using PubSub+ is that it is a proper event manager that can handle events in a reactive way.
SD
Jul 5, 2020
Guaranteed Messaging allows for us to transport messages between on-prem and the cloud without any loss of data.
CK
Jun 9, 2020
The topic hierarchy is pretty flexible. Once you have the subject defined just about anybody who knows Java can come onboard. The APIs are all there.
DD
May 19, 2023
We like the seamless flexibility in protocol exchange offering without writing a code.
 

PubSub+ Event Broker Cons review quotes

JC
May 18, 2022
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.
DN
Jun 10, 2020
One of the areas of improvement would be if we could tell the story a bit better about what an event mesh does or why an event mesh is foundational to a large enterprise that has a wide diversity of applications that are homegrown and a small number off the shelf.
SA
Jun 10, 2020
A challenge we currently have is Solace's ability to integrate with single sign-on in our Active Directory and other single sign-on tools and platforms that any company would have. It's important for the platforms to work. Typically, they support only LDAP-based connectivity to our SQL Servers.
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SS
Nov 25, 2020
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?
MO
Jun 16, 2020
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.
NK
Jun 21, 2020
I would like them to design topic and queue schemas, mapping them to the enterprise data structure.
YogeshKumar1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 17, 2023
The deployment process is complex.
SD
Jul 5, 2020
The ease of management could be approved. The GUI is very good, but to configure and manage these devices programmatically in the software version is not easy. For example, if I would like to spin up a new software broker, then I could in theory use the API, but it would require a considerable amount of development effort to do so. There should be a tool, or something that Solace supports, that we could use for this, e.g., a platform like Terraform where we could use infrastructure as code to configure our source appliances.
CK
Jun 9, 2020
The product should allow third-party agents to be installed. Currently, it is quite proprietary.
DD
May 19, 2023
For improvements, I would suggest increasing the max payload size to a limit of 100MB or more. The current max payload size is limited to 5MB.